A key deadline for the government's borrowing limit is rapidly approaching, but lawmakers may not have to deal with it until ...

You may have missed it amid your New Year’s Eve revelry, but the United States Congress is now, as of the stroke of midnight ...

The nation’s debt ceiling was reinstated Thursday, giving congressional Republicans yet another divisive challenge to contend ...

President-elect Donald Trump added a wrinkle to negotiations over a deal to fund the government when he called for an ...

The federal debt limit has no practical value. This suggests that ending it would be a good idea. Yet the laws of unintended ...

The notification to Congress is the clearest sign yet that the fight to avoid default will likely take place in the early ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday the 2023 debt ceiling extension agreed by then House Speaker Kevin McCarthy ...

Congress ultimately passed a package to fund the federal government into mid-March that did not include Trump’s demand to deal with the debt ceiling. Although the debt ceiling returns on January ...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says her agency will need to start taking “extraordinary measures,” or special accounting ...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Congress that the country could hit the debt ceiling as soon as Jan. 14 in a letter ...

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President-elect Trump is headed for a battle over the debt limit with conservative lawmakers who are demanding steep cuts to ...