Right now, the debt is about to become much bigger, because Republicans want to cut taxes while making USA less trustworthy for bond buyers. (And no, they were not able to save money with their random cuts).

Newsflash: most of that debt is because of republicans who slash taxes each time the democrats stabilize the situation.

Federal government actually has quite a lot of useful and effective services. And then one party (republicans) that is intentionally trying to make it innefective and bad.