Maybe you mean something different, but not every recent president has "run an increasing deficit" Reagan: +74B Bush: +103B Clinton: -382B Bush: +1.5T Obama: -747B Trump: +2.1T Biden: -1T

Where change in deficit is the final budget deficit - starting budget deficit

So, every Republican president runs an increasing deficit and every Democrat president runs a decreasing deficit.

Congress is the one that largely makes the fiscal policy choices. For example, during Clinton’s second term when the deficit was almost eliminated (some claim there was a surplus, but there wasn’t because of social security liabilities), you had a republican controlled congress who were pushing for cuts and fiscal tightening:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America