1+1=2.
My monthly budget is, say, $3000. After the mortgage, utilities, food, auto expenses & the like, let's say we have $140. left over. We buy small stuff or save it. If I was in DC, I'd spend $2600. more & ask them to raise the ceiling.
Why can't a simpleton do this? The only differences between me & a Congressman is the number of zeroes. We got this way by everyone giving away money that isn't theirs to people they don't know hoping they will vote for them. 536 bureacrats, plus the tens of thousands of staff, did this.