to take advantage of current technology to catch and harvest rare minerals in asteroids to wipe out the U.S. deficit.

The current asteroid that just password within 13,000km of Earth had approximately 150-200 billion dollars worth of minerals. While creating a Death star would not be feasible tractor beam technology has been around since the early 60-70's as seen in star trek and star wars. By harvesting these minerals you can wipe out the national debt after trapping a couple football field size asteroids