The US Treasury has added Venmo and PayPal to its decades-old public debt donation programme. The update appeared on Pay.gov, the federal government's official payments portal, and sparked viral attention after a post on X highlighting the option drew millions of views.
The 'Gifts to Reduce the Public Debt' programme has operated since the 1960s under federal statute, accepting contributions from citizens who wish to reduce a debt now totalling approximately £30.2 trillion ($39 trillion).
