Editorial and Data Standards

Editorial and Data Standards

U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data, CBO, FRED, Census, NASBO, and the named source files take priority. Market or modeled context is never presented as an official live value.

Debt to the Penny refreshes from Treasury when available and falls back to a source-dated snapshot. Other figures remain fixed until their source release is reviewed.

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