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Rates & Fed · August 20, 2026 · 2 min read

Treasury Data Showed a $962 Billion Closing Balance in Its General Account on August 18

By Econ Data Tools Editorial Team

Published August 20, 2026 • Updated August 21, 2026

Treasury's Daily Treasury Statement data show that the Treasury General Account closed August 18 at $961.952 billion after reported deposits exceeded withdrawals that day.

CONFIRMED FACTS The U.S. Treasury's Daily Treasury Statement data show that the Treasury General Account (TGA) opened August 18, 2026 at $932.785 billion and closed at $961.952 billion. The same operating-cash-balance table records total TGA deposits of $315.449 billion and total TGA withdrawals of $286.282 billion for the day. All figures in that table are rounded to the nearest million dollars. For August 17, the table shows a $959.184 billion opening TGA balance and a $932.785 billion closing balance. Treasury's data dictionary describes the operating-cash-balance table as representing the TGA balance, with additional detail on changes in its deposits-and-withdrawals table. ANALYSIS On August 18, reported deposits exceeded reported withdrawals by about $29.167 billion, which corresponds to the difference between that day's opening and closing balances after rounding. The prior day's reported balance movement was in the opposite direction. These daily movements describe federal cash flows through the TGA; they are not measures of the federal deficit or of Treasury debt outstanding. UNKNOWNS AND LIMITS The Daily Treasury Statement is a daily cash accounting record, and its component figures are rounded to the nearest million. A one-day change cannot identify the specific economic or policy reasons for deposits or withdrawals without examining the underlying transaction categories. The closing balance is the TGA balance, not the total balance of all federal accounts, and it should not be interpreted as a measure of government wealth or fiscal sustainability.

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