As long as you're willing to foot the bill for your overlords, tho I get the sneaking suspicion you don't have to.
Congress sets the budget, not the President. TARP, and two ongoing wars have to be paid for. Those wars, plus a new front in Yemen, have been stepped up, mind you. That, plus the $1.5 trillion hole this tax bill just chewed, will kinda add on to the debt a whole lot, because that's how thangs work. Not everything can recieve welfare.