How much debt that's subject to the debt ceiling does the government have ?

How much cash does the federal government have on hand ?

*Note: All dollar values are in millions e.g. 1000 equals $1 billion.

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The data

Every day at 4pm, the United States Treasury publishes data tables summarizing the cash spending, deposits, and borrowing of the Federal government. These files catalog all the money taken in that day from taxes, the programs, and how much debt the government took out to make it happen. It comes from a section of the U.S. Treasury called the Bureau of the Fiscal Service

At a time of record fiscal deficits and continual debates over spending, taxation, and the debt, this daily accounting of our government's main checking account is an essential data point that the public should have ready access to.

Original data format

The Treasury told us in response to a Freedom of Information Act Request that it does not store this data in any format other than inconsistently structured text files that don't lend themselves to programmatic analysis.

New data format

We have created the first-ever electronically-searchable database of the Federal government's daily cash spending and borrowing. It updates daily and the data can be exported in various formats and loaded into a variety of systems. It is also 100% open source and free to use. We started the project at the Columbia and Stanford Bi-Coastal Datafest Hackathon and continued the it with support from a Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Code Sprint Grant.

We want to make it easy for people to search, explore, and visualize how the government spends their tax dollars.