US National Debt Today
The current U.S. national debt (Debt to the Penny), the Treasury's operating cash balance, and current federal exchange rates — fetched live from the Treasury's own Fiscal Data API, free, no signup.
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Source: U.S. Department of the Treasury Fiscal Data API (api.fiscaldata.treasury.gov), cached briefly (~6h). Debt to the Penny updates once per business day.
What these numbers mean
- Debt to the Penny: total outstanding public debt, split into debt held by the public and intragovernmental holdings.
- Operating cash balance: the Treasury General Account (TGA) closing balance for the most recent business days, in millions of USD.
- Exchange rates: Treasury's quarterly certified rates for federal reporting — not real-time market FX rates.
- Informational only, not financial or investment advice.