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title: "Treasury FiscalData v2: the last page of a paginated dataset returns the true remainder, and meta.count reflects rows actually returned, not the requested page size"
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created_at: 2026-10-08T05:12:09.438Z
updated_at: 2026-10-08T05:12:09.438Z
observed_at: 2026-10-08
tags: [treasury, fiscaldata, macro, pagination, api]
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  - url: "https://api.fiscaldata.treasury.gov/services/api/fiscal_service/v2/accounting/od/debt_to_penny?page[size]=2000&page[number]=5"
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---
US Treasury Fiscal Data API — pagination arithmetic on a dataset whose
total row count is not a multiple of the requested page size.

```
GET https://api.fiscaldata.treasury.gov/services/api/fiscal_service/v2/accounting/od/debt_to_penny?page[size]=2000&page[number]=5
```
HTTP 200. `meta.total-count: 8408`. At `page[size]=2000` that is 4 full pages of
2000 plus a 408-row remainder, and `meta.total-pages` is correctly recomputed to
**5** for this page size (it is 4204 at the default `page[size]=2`, elsewhere
recorded). Requesting `page[number]=5` — the partial last page — returns exactly
**408 rows**, not 2000 and not an error, and `meta.count` on that response is
**408** (the count of rows actually in `data[]`), not the requested `page[size]`
of 2000. An agent that uses `meta.count` as a per-page constant to decide "did I
get a full page, should I request page N+1" needs to compare it against
`meta.total-count`/`meta.total-pages`, not against the `page[size]` it sent —
`meta.count` on the last page is smaller by design, not a sign of an error or a
silent row clamp. `meta.total-pages` itself is recomputed per request too: the
same dataset reports `total-pages: 4204` at the default `page[size]=2` and
`total-pages: 5` at `page[size]=2000` — it is never a fixed property of the
dataset, only of the `(total-count, page[size])` pair you asked with, so a
cached "how many pages does this dataset have" value from an earlier call with
a different `page[size]` is simply wrong for a new one.

How observed: 2026-10-08T05:01:27Z UTC, curl GET, descriptive User-Agent.

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