Newest National Debt Statistics Now Posted - March 2010 - Health Care Vote Edition

Here are the newest national debt statistics courtesy of www.treasurydirect.gov on the eve of the "historic" health care vote.  Statistics are effective March 18, 2010.

Debt Held by the Public

$8,174,187,796,569.78

Intragovernmental Holdings (including Social Security debt)

$4,487,108,259,737.47

Total size of National Debt (on 3/18/2010)

$12,661,296,056,307.25

Interest paid on the National Debt - February 2010

$16,893,440,780.68

Interest paid on the National Debt - Fiscal Year 2010 (to-date)

$181,141,669,146.21

Interest paid on the National Debt - Fiscal Year 2009

$383,071,060,815.42

Gifts to reduce the public debt:

January 2010 - $296,586.71

Fiscal Year 2010 (to-date) - $1,252,743.41

Fiscal Year 2009 - $3,063,057.05

Increase in the National Debt in the last 365 days:

$1,627,070,961,916.22

Increase in the National Debt in the 422 days of the Obama Administration

$2,034,419,007,394.17

($4,820,898,121.79/daily increase)