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    • Debt to the Penny

    Metadata Updated: December 1, 2023

    The Debt to the Penny dataset provides information about the total outstanding public debt and is reported each day. Debt to the Penny is made up of intragovernmental holdings and debt held by the public, including securities issued by the U.S. Treasury. Total public debt outstanding is composed of Treasury Bills, Notes, Bonds, Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS), Floating Rate Notes (FRNs), and Federal Financing Bank (FFB) securities, as well as Domestic Series, Foreign Series, State and Local Government Series (SLGS), U.S. Savings Securities, and Government Account Series (GAS) securities. Debt to the Penny is updated at 3:00 PM EST each business day with data from the previous business day.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date December 1, 2023
    Data Update Frequency R/P1D

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Treasury JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date December 1, 2023
    Publisher Bureau of the Fiscal Service
    Maintainer
    Identifier 015-BFS-2014Q3-065
    Data Last Modified 2020-07-28
    Public Access Level public
    Data Update Frequency R/P1D
    Bureau Code 015:12
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID http://www.treasury.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Dictionary https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/debt-to-the-penny/
    Harvest Object Id 30bb2246-6c96-4abb-b4b8-fa158112239d
    Harvest Source Id eacdc0c3-6ae0-4b8b-b653-cbcb32fc9b71
    Harvest Source Title Treasury JSON
    Homepage URL https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/debt-to-the-penny/
    Primary IT Investment UII 015-000000060
    Program Code 015:034
    Publisher Hierarchy Department of the Treasury > Fiscal Service > Bureau of the Fiscal Service
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 3b24d7f2078e16e2780ab7258aad88e20ab45293a1cc444eed35094609c7d23f
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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