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

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

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

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

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

GOP leaders are staring down two bad options to solve President-elect Donald Trump’s debt-limit problem, after failing to execute his demand to lift the federal borrowing cap in the last ...

A new debt ceiling established this week sets up a coming debate about averting default. The parameters of that standoff are ...

The new cohort of lawmakers could agree to once again suspend it. They could also get rid of the national debt cap altogether ...

Is United States of America headed for a default in 2025? Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has said she expects the US will ...

Conservatives now say Trump will need to agree to deep cuts in spending if he wants their support for raising the debt limit in 2025. “We’re about 33 percent overdrawn. We bring in about $4.8 ...

The Speaker of the House of the 119th Congress is now facing several critical political fights while navigating a razor-thin ...