The Treasury desk · Fiscal Data, read live
What the Treasury owes.
What it holds.
The total public debt to the penny, the balance in the government’s own current account, the money that went in and out of it on the last reported day, the average interest rate on every class of security outstanding, and the exchange rates Treasury publishes for converting foreign currency. Every one of them is the Treasury’s own published figure, read by this page directly from the Fiscal Data API without a key and without a server of ours in between.
None of it is live in the sense a market is live. The debt file and the Daily Treasury Statement are published once a business day, in the afternoon Eastern time, for the business day before; the interest rates are monthly and appear once Treasury has closed the month; the exchange rates are quarterly. So every figure on this page carries the record date Treasury gave it, and where a comparison is drawn, the date it is drawn against is printed beside it.
Nothing has been read yet.
The debt
To the penny, as Treasury records it.
Treasury publishes the total public debt outstanding every business day, down to the cent, and this is that figure for the most recent day in the file. The three comparisons underneath are computed from the same series rather than quoted: the desk looks for the newest record on or before each target date and prints the date it found, because a holiday moves the answer and a page that hides that is lying quietly.
Total public debt outstanding
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Reading the debt file…
The last twelve months
The account
The government’s current account.
The Treasury General Account is where federal receipts land and federal payments leave from — the operating balance, held at the Federal Reserve. The Daily Treasury Statement reports its close each business day in whole millions, so the figure below is exact to the million and no further, and the two flow figures beside it are Treasury’s own totals for the day, not a sum this page struck.
Operating cash balance
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Reading the Daily Treasury Statement…
The last ninety business days
In and out, on the last reported day
Reading the day’s deposits and withdrawals…
The rates
What the debt costs, by kind.
Each month Treasury publishes the average interest rate it is paying on every class of security outstanding — bills, notes, bonds, inflation-protected securities, savings bonds, the series held inside government accounts. These are averages across everything outstanding in that class, not the rate on anything issued this week, and they move slowly for exactly that reason. The prior month’s figure sits beside each one so the direction is visible.
Average interest rate by security
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Reading the interest rate file…
The conversion
Treasury’s reporting rate, applied.
Treasury publishes one exchange rate per currency per quarter, for federal agencies to convert foreign currency figures when they report. It is set from the rate prevailing at the end of the quarter, it is amended mid-quarter only where a currency has moved far enough to warrant it, and it can therefore sit a long way from what a bank would quote today. It is the right number for reading a federal report and the wrong number for changing money.
Rates of exchange
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This is Treasury’s quarterly reporting rate. It is not a market rate, not a dealing rate, and not what you would be charged to exchange money. Do not use it as one.
About
A reading room, not a terminal.
Everything here comes from the Fiscal Data API published by the Bureau of the Fiscal Service at fiscaldata.treasury.gov — five datasets, no key, no account, read by your browser straight from Treasury and not through anything of ours. Nothing is stored, and nothing on this page has been typed in by hand: if a figure is on the screen it arrived in the response that loaded it, and if a file does not answer, the panel that needed it says so and shows no number at all.
This is not market data. The debt file and the Daily Treasury Statement are published once a business day for the day before, so the newest figure here is already at least a day old and is older over a weekend or a federal holiday; the interest rates are monthly and the exchange rates quarterly. Treasury also revises: a figure can change after publication, and this desk shows whatever the file says now rather than whatever it said yesterday. The record date on every figure is the one that tells you how old it is, and it is printed for that reason.
It is also not advice. Nothing here is a forecast, a valuation, a recommendation or a rate you can transact at, and the conversion tool in particular applies a quarterly reporting rate that exists so federal agencies can write consistent reports — using it to price a transaction would be a misuse of it. Where this desk and fiscaldata.treasury.gov disagree, Treasury is right; its own site carries the full datasets, their documentation and their revision history.