That's a real possibility, and then the damage would be so much greater. Let's hope it won't come to that.
Both parties will continue to print and print and print as one industry after another goes down the tubes. The huge debt we've accumulated in mortgages, car loans, college tuition, credit card, fracking, state pensions, SS, Medicare, etc will not be able to be paid when the economy sinks. The only way to save the country, they think, will be to bail out everyone. Of course, Republicans have shown they now are like Democrats, and Trump is just as much to blame for it. But this has been going on for decades. Trump, the master debt specialist, is just at the end of a long line of politicians and economists who want to spend their way out of problems. It doesn't work for people; it doesn't work for countries.