The Treasury General Account has fallen sharply since January when Treasury hit its limit on borrowing.
Cash balance targets indicate it will need to rebuild its account quickly now that the borrowing cap has been lifted.
"Money market funds are extremely short ... so the trillion-dollar Treasury bills (issuance) would be welcome with open arms," said money market fund expert Peter Crane, president of Crane Data.
Part of that could be due to the fact that money funds, heavily exposed to short-term debt this year, have started to extend the their maturities recently.
"The Federal Reserve RRP has been holding trillions of the money fund assets and so that money can easily be redeployed into Treasury bills.
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