It'll never run since they have the power to demand that it be kept sufficiently full.

Are we living in the same reality? The US can't even keep a single strait safe right now against a fairly "weak" state. We don't have the political willpower for American servicemen to die in defensive wars like Ukraine or to hold back ISIS in Afghanistan.

How, exactly, are we going to demand sovereignties like China or the EU give us trillions of dollars?