# US Total Public Debt Outstanding (Treasury FiscalData)

> US Total Public Debt Outstanding (Treasury FiscalData) is a paid API for AI agents from proxy.suverse.io, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns the latest US total public debt outstanding to the penny from official Treasury FiscalData, including total debt, debt held by the public, and intragovernmental holdings.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://proxy.suverse.io/v1/data/suverse-treasury-debt-to-penny
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/us-total-public-debt-outstanding-treasury-fiscaldata-7f03065c
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_QfLe8es5jBOuf9B-D_mvQ

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability us-total-public-debt-outstanding-treasury-fiscaldata-7f03065c -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: What is the current US total public debt outstanding to the penny, and how much of it is held by the public versus intragovernmental holdings?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need the most up-to-date official US public debt figure to the penny sourced directly from Treasury FiscalData, particularly for debt ceiling monitoring, macro risk analysis, or fiscal trajectory tracking. Prefer this over scraped or estimated sources when precision and official provenance matter.

## Known failure modes

- Treasury FiscalData API unavailability causes empty or error response
- Stale data if Treasury has not published a new record (data typically updated daily on business days)
- Proxy service outage returns HTTP 5xx
- Payment failure (insufficient USDC) returns HTTP 402

## How this service works

Total US public debt outstanding to the penny from official Treasury FiscalData, latest record: total debt, debt held by public, intragovernmental holdings, record date. For AI agents tracking the debt ceiling, fiscal trajectory, and macro risk.

## Output

Returns the latest record from US Treasury FiscalData including: total public debt outstanding (to the penny), debt held by the public, intragovernmental holdings, and the record date of the most recent data point.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "properties": {}
    },
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "POST",
      "PUT",
      "PATCH"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "bodyType": {
     "enum": [
      "json",
      "form-data",
      "text"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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