US national debt to the penny API

Return the latest US total public debt outstanding ('debt to the penny') from the keyless US Treasury FiscalData API, normalized to numeric fields (total public debt, debt held by public, intragovernmental holdings, record date). Answers 'what is the US national debt right now?','how much debt is held by the public?'.

Price$0.01per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/gov/treasury-debt

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit60/minute

Cache3600s public

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API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/gov/treasury-debt

Integration docs

Example request

{}

Example response

{
  "recordDate": "2026-06-02",
  "totalPublicDebt": 39221984586285.3,
  "debtHeldByPublic": 31597886394124.88,
  "intragovernmentalHoldings": 7624098192160.42
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [],
  "properties": {}
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}