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U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data Debt API

National debt outstanding and interest expense on the debt.

U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data Debt API is one of 6 APIs that U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Debt. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and an API reference.

This API exposes 2 operations across 2 paths, and defines 3 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version 1.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.fiscaldata.treasury.gov/services/api/fiscal_service.

2 operations 2 paths 3 schemas 2 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.3
API Version
1.0
Base URL
https://api.fiscaldata.treasury.gov/services/api/fiscal_service
Resource Areas
1

Paths & Operations 2

Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 2 operations — 2 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Debt 2

National debt outstanding and interest expense on the debt.

GET
/v2/accounting/od/debt_to_penny
Debt to the Penny
getDebtToPenny 6 params → 200
GET
/v2/accounting/od/interest_expense
Interest Expense on the Public Debt Outstanding
getInterestExpense 6 params → 200

Schemas 3

The contract defines 3 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Meta (6 properties), Links (5 properties), DatasetResponse (3 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

DatasetResponse
object
Standard Fiscal Data envelope. data is an array of records whose fields vary per dataset; all values are returned as strings.
3 properties
Links
object
Pagination links (query-string fragments).
5 properties
Meta
object
Metadata describing the returned fields and the full result set.
6 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

fiscaldata-debt-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data publishes across the network.

U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data Daily Treasury Statement API
U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data Exchange Rates API
U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data Interest Rates API
U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data Monthly Treasury Statement API
U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data Securities API
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