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Us Budget Deficit

by Vextorium in Markets & finance

x402 APIFailing, checked 2 h ago

Monthly US federal receipts, outlays and deficit (or surplus), plus the trailing 12-month deficit, from the Monthly Treasury Statement. US Treasury, public domain.

POST https://api.vextorium.com/v1/us-budget-deficit

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How to call it

POST https://api.vextorium.com/v1/us-budget-deficit

Each call costs $0.003 in USDC on Base, paid with the request over x402.

Run a free test callOne unpaid request, the way an agent sends it. You see the payment challenge it gets back. Nothing is charged.

Example request

From the listing.

POST https://api.vextorium.com/v1/us-budget-deficit
content-type: application/json

{
  "months": 6
}

Parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
monthsintegerNo1-36 (default 12)

Example response

The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.

{
  "deficit_last_12m_usd": -1767641387110,
  "last": {
    "balance_usd": -166796952277,
    "expenses_usd": 526829688119,
    "month": "2026-08",
    "revenue_usd": 360032735841
  },
  "note": "Negative balance = deficit.",
  "series": [
    {
      "balance_usd": -164100313818,
      "expenses_usd": 548962915854,
      "month": "2026-03",
      "revenue_usd": 384862602036
    },
    {
      "balance_usd": 215024135198,
      "expenses_usd": 622318555796,
      "month": "2026-04",
      "revenue_usd": 837342690994
    }
  ],
  "source": "U.S. Treasury, Monthly Treasury Statement (public domain)"
}

Call it from code

The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.003.

curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i -X POST 'https://api.vextorium.com/v1/us-budget-deficit' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"months":6}'

# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - -X POST 'https://api.vextorium.com/v1/us-budget-deficit' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"months":6}' \
  | grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decode
JavaScript: pay and call
// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

// Pays at most $0.003 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.003" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.003 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.vextorium.com%2Fv1%2Fus-budget-deficit&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://api.vextorium.com/v1/us-budget-deficit", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "months": 6
  }),
});
console.log(res.status, await res.text());
Python: pay and call
# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client

# Pays at most $0.003 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.003"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))

with x402_requests(client) as session:
    res = session.post(
        "https://api.vextorium.com/v1/us-budget-deficit",
        json={
            "months": 6,
        },
    )
    print(res.status_code, res.text)

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