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The Treasury’s Monthly Treasury Statement (MTS) is available in final‑form PDFs and machine tables on Treasury/Fiscal Service sites; the MTS final FY2025 publication and earlier monthly files are list...
Furloughed federal employees are placed in a temporary nonduty, nonpay status because work or funding has ceased; federal employees continue to perform work permitted during a lapse in appropriations ...
No — a is not the same as a paid vacation: it is a temporary, unpaid suspension of duty in many cases, with distinct rules about pay, leave, benefits and outside work that differentiate it sharply fro...
The available sources report multiple, slightly different figures for U.S. federal debt in 2023 depending on the measure and date: “debt held by the public” was about $26.3 trillion as of September 30...
Interest payments on publicly held debt rose notably from FY2023 to FY2025: reporting indicates net interest was about $710 billion in FY2023 and interest payments on debt held by the public reached r...
U.S. debt-to-GDP rose sharply in 2020 during the pandemic and then trended downward through 2021–2024, but exact levels differ across data providers and by whether figures are quarterly or annual: Mac...