This load of BS is, sadly, the prevailing view of economics at the federal level among uninformed voters and is easily adopted because it resonates with their own household budgeting. Politicians and their corporate masters make good use of this misconception to promote economics that simply aren't based in reality for the "constitutionally authorized creator of the US dollar", Congress.

If, as you claim, the US government must "find" money to fund its spending then where did the first dollar come from? How does one collect (tax) or borrow what doesn't yet exist? Just realizing this simple fact changes the perspective 180 degrees when discussing economics at the federal level. Basic econ isn't that difficult to grasp as it all hinges on simple sectoral balances as applied to spreadsheet accounting used worldwide to track money movements.

The federal government must be placed into a separate sector because it "creates" every dollar it spends and "destroys" every dollar it collects or borrows by applying it to the "debt" (which is nothing more than a tracking number for the currency in circulation expressed as a maximum of potential taxation, the money supply). Paying off the national debt, the holy grail for most politicians and corporate economists, would mean removing all "net" currency from circulation and forcing all private sector bank debt into default.