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OID is treated as interest income.
Even if you reported it as capital gains (you should not) it would be < 1 year so STCG,, same as income.

BTW if you want to avoid the hassle of buying treasuries directly, consider CLIP SGOV XHLF ETFs with ERs of 7,9,3 bps respectively.

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