The US government has been continuously running a deficit for a long while. I'm not sure what is the significance of $23T (over 22T, or any other number). It's

The US government has been continuously running a deficit for a long while. I'm not sure what is the significance of $23T (over 22T, or any other number). It's not even necessarily bad that we run a deficit, although perhaps it should be limited to be in proportion of nominal GDP growth.