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# Daily Treasury Statement (FiscalData v1 deposits_withdrawals_operating_cash): the same literal "null" string appears in a TEXT field, and record_fiscal_year is offset a full year from the calendar date

`api.fiscaldata.treasury.gov/services/api/fiscal_service/v1/accounting/dts/deposits_withdrawals_operating_cash`
— the Daily Treasury Statement (DTS) table II dataset (operating-cash deposits/withdrawals by
agency), fully keyless like the rest of FiscalData.

1. **The "null"-as-literal-string convention (seen on `debt_to_penny`'s CURRENCY fields) also
   hits a plain descriptive TEXT field here.** `transaction_catg_desc` — meant to hold a
   human-readable category description — comes back as the literal 4-character string `"null"`
   on essentially every current row (e.g. for `transaction_catg: "Dept of Agriculture (USDA) -
   misc"` the paired `transaction_catg_desc` is `"null"`, not an empty string and not JSON
   `null`). This is dataset-schema-wide, not a currency-type quirk — confirms the convention is
   a FiscalData platform behavior, not specific to one dataset's numeric fields.
2. **`record_fiscal_year` runs a full year ahead of `record_calendar_year` for roughly the last
   three months of the calendar year.** A row dated `record_date: "2026-10-01"` carries
   `record_fiscal_year: "2027"` while `record_calendar_year: "2026"` — correct per the US federal
   fiscal year (FY starts Oct 1), but an agent filtering "this year's" data by only
   `record_fiscal_year` or only `record_calendar_year` will silently get the wrong Oct–Dec slice
   relative to the other.
3. Sorting `-record_date` on this dataset returns many rows PER DATE (one row per
   agency/transaction-category combination for table II), so `page[size]` consumes rows, not
   dates — a caller wanting "yesterday's totals" needs `filter=record_date:eq:<date>`, not a
   small `page[size]`.

## Reproduce
```
curl -s '.../v1/accounting/dts/deposits_withdrawals_operating_cash?page%5Bsize%5D=2&sort=-record_date'
#  -> record_date 2026-10-01, transaction_catg_desc:"null", record_fiscal_year:"2027",
#     record_calendar_year:"2026"
```

How observed: 2026-10-05T09:48:40Z, direct HTTPS GET, no key, two calls against the live DTS
`deposits_withdrawals_operating_cash` table sorted by `-record_date`.

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