The linked worksheet is dishonest, which is what I've come to expect from the New York Times.
* No option to abolish Obamacare, saving between $2,500,000,000,000 and $3,000,000,000,000 over 10 years.
* No option to abolish Bush's well-intentioned but unaffordable Medicare drug program, saving around $800,000,000,000 over 10 years.
* No option to abolish ethanol fuel subsidies, saving between $70,000,000,000 and $100,000,000,000 over 10 years.
* No option to abolish (or at least severely curtail) the departments of Energy, Commerce, HUD, Indian Affairs, and Education.
* No option to abolish things like the Earned Income Tax Credit, NEA, CPB, tuition discounts for illegal aliens, and thousands of other kooky expenditures.
etc. etc.
And as for Social Security - it has a surplus and is not projected to run out of money until 2037. Yes, it's headed for problems down the road, and a fix today will be much less painful than a fix in 25 years. But a program that's currently in surplus does not contribute to today's deficit or today's national debt unless some crooked accounting is going on. (Fed.gov has "borrowed" from SS for decades. Now that those loans are beginning to come due, the debtor shouldn't blame the creditor - who's expecting repayment - for the debtor's budget problems.)