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A chat on subreddit /r/wallstreetbets
human
It all depends on what you’re spending on. 

Run a deficit to build infrastructure and invest in your working population? Increases future interest payments, but increases your tax revenue. If efficient, Debt to GDP ratio tends to decrease. 

Cut essential spending to campaign on a budget surplus? Decrease your future interest payments, but at the cost of draining money out of the economy and causing a recession. Debt to GDP ratio increases. 

Though if you can find purely wasteful spending,  not things like SS, Medicare, infrastructure subsidies, etc. I guess you could cut it - good luck finding that, though. Just need to be sure costs of your cuts/spending don’t outweighthe savings/gains.
gpt
I get that argument. There are pros and cons to running a deficit. The con to running a deficit is that you will have to make interest payments in the future. The pro is that you get to spend that money now, by borrowing.