This page summarizes the safe merge of explicitly approved debt burden / revenue capacity candidate/context rows into a new 29-row display cache. It does not activate scoring.
| Metric ID | Candidate Metric | Latest Value | Observation Period | Trend | Trend Window | Direction Review | Source | Boundary |
| NDD-MET-021 | Federal debt held by the public per person | $90,135 per person | 2025 Q4 debt / Dec 2025 population | +$5,541 | 2025 Q4 vs 2024 Q4 | Worsening direction if per-person public debt burden rises. | FRED / U.S. Treasury Fiscal Service / OMB / Census/BEA population | Candidate/context display only; scoring disabled; no issue grade; no member grade; no report-card use; no rollup; no leaderboard; no legislative mapping; no letters/calls/action tools. |
| NDD-MET-022 | Federal debt held by the public as percent of federal receipts | 589.5% | 2025 Q4 debt / FY2025 receipts | +3.0 PP | 2025 vs 2024 | Worsening direction if debt-to-receipts burden rises. | FRED / U.S. Treasury Fiscal Service / OMB / Census/BEA population | Candidate/context display only; scoring disabled; no issue grade; no member grade; no report-card use; no rollup; no leaderboard; no legislative mapping; no letters/calls/action tools. |
| NDD-MET-023 | Gross federal debt as percent of federal receipts | 0.7% | FY2025 | -0.0 PP | 2025 vs 2024 | Worsening direction if gross debt-to-receipts burden rises. | FRED / OMB / Council of Economic Advisers | Candidate/context display only; scoring disabled; no issue grade; no member grade; no report-card use; no rollup; no leaderboard; no legislative mapping; no letters/calls/action tools. |