The national debt is concrete, but no president likes having their ability to spend constrained. It should be handled in the way all >4 year payback US problem

The national debt is concrete, but no president likes having their ability to spend constrained. It should be handled in the way all >4 year payback US problems are: by empowering a commission to do the neccessary unpopular things and give members longer-than-4-year terms.