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US Treasury Total Outstanding Debt Data
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US Treasury Total Outstanding Debt Data is a paid API for AI agents from x402.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-20).
Returns the current total outstanding US government debt, split into publicly held and intragovernmental components, with the official reporting date, refreshed every 6 hours.
Price / call$0.005
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StatusUnknown
How this service works
Current total outstanding US government debt with a same-day-accurate figure, split between publicly held and intragovernmental debt, plus the official reporting date. For finance dashboards, economic research, and news-generation agents that need a citable number without scraping a government portal. Refreshed every 6 hours.
Output
Returns a structured object containing the total outstanding US government debt (a same-day-accurate dollar figure), the portion held by the public, the intragovernmental portion, and the official Treasury reporting date for that figure.
Example use cases
Live national debt dashboard widget
“Pull the latest US government debt figure for me, including how much is publicly held versus intragovernmental, so I can update the numbers on my finance dashboard right now.”
Cite debt figure in news article
“I'm drafting an article about federal spending — what's the current total US national debt as of today, and what's the official Treasury reporting date I can cite as my source?”
Economic research debt breakdown
“For my economic research report, can you get me the most up-to-date split between US debt held by the public and intragovernmental debt, along with when those numbers were last officially reported?”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://x402.forgemesh.io/treasury-debt-data?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Use this endpoint when you need a machine-readable, citable, same-day-accurate US national debt figure without scraping the Treasury website directly. Ideal for finance dashboards, economic research agents, news-generation pipelines, or any workflow requiring a real-time debt split between publicly held and intragovernmental obligations. Prefer this over manual scraping or cached static sources when freshness (6-hour refresh) and reliability matter.
Side effects
- Service unavailable or upstream Treasury data refresh delayed — returns 5xx error
- Payment not processed (x402 payment required) — returns 402 with payment instructions
- Malformed POST body — returns 4xx with validation error
- Data temporarily stale if Treasury portal hasn't published today's figure yet
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| inputrequired | object | |
| output | object |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"data": {
"data": [
{
"record_date": "2026-07-13",
"tot_pub_debt_out_amt": "38412345678901.23"
}
]
}
}
}Tags
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