I used to be skeptical of this sort of hack but I recently heard a very convincing argument: Congress writes a budget for the government. The government should

I used to be skeptical of this sort of hack but I recently heard a very convincing argument: Congress writes a budget for the government. The government should follow that budget. If Congress wants the government to borrow less it should write a smaller budget, not pass a high budget and instruct the government to default on the payments it promised.