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Well, sure you obviously CAN reduce the deficit without cutting entitlement spending - raise taxes, or cut other spending, like defense spending or spending for Trump's SS detail to take him on a golf outing every weekend.
Revenues minus expenditures = surplus (deficit). Anything that impacts the amount of revenues or expenditures impacts the deficit. The GOP tax cuts made projected deficits far worse, for example. Reversing them would reduce deficits below current projections.
That (bolded above) assertion is simply not so - if you cut 100% of defense spending (which, of course, is not possible) then you would still have a federal deficit. Also true is that cutting 100% of non-defense, discretionary spending would still leave a federal deficit. Using individual federal income tax (rate?) increases would require about a 40% increase to erase the federal deficit - that too is simply not going to happen.