<P> As is apparent from the chart , a little less than half of the total national debt is owed to the `` Federal Reserve and intragovernmental holdings '' . The foreign and international holders of the debt are also put together from the notes , bills , and bonds sections . To the right is a chart for the data as of June 2008 : </P>
what percentage of the u.s. public debt is held by federal agencies and the federal reserve
a little less than half