Assertion: u.s. | /r/CapableOf | use budget surpluses
Facets:
value: to pay down federal debt
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: As the U.S. government used budget surpluses to pay down Federal debt in the late 1990s, the 10-year Treasury note began to replace the 30-year Treasury bond as the general, most-followed metric of the U.S. bond market.