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A fact from Treasury General Account appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 February 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the US federal government's "checking account" held more than $800 billion at the beginning of February 2024?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/February. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Treasury General Account.

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Lightburst talk 16:14, 20 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

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... that the US federal government holds more than $800 billion in its "checking account"? Source: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/daily-treasury-statement/operating-cash-balance
- ALT1: ... that the US federal government's "checking account" held more than $800 billion at the beginning of February? Source: ditto
- Reviewed: [[]]
- Comment: This is my 5th DYK nomination, so my last exempt from QPQ.

Created by Rublov (talk). Self-nominated at 23:32, 3 February 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Treasury General Account; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall:

Took some effort to check, but verified against the sources. Just barely long enough. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 04:06, 4 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

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