What are the real-world economic consquences of a huge national deficit?

Question

I’m a middle aged dude with a family, own a house, have four kids, investments, all the adulting things.

However, I’m still not sure how a multi-trillion dollar national defecit seeps down to affect my day-to-day life

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Answer 1

I like people are telling OP “don’t worry about it” and then the next sentence “the gov will just print money, which will lead to inflation”, like, that IS a real-world economic consequence.