The Treasury actually ran a surplus of $58 billion in April 2012. That's the first time since August 2008 that the US had more receipts than expenditures.
Update: Wait a minute. The total national debt was $15.582 trillion on March 30, 2012 and was $15.692 trillion on April 30. So the surplus wasn't used to pay down the debt.
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