Fitch Ratings released a report warning that Congress could struggle to raise or suspend the debt limit while also dealing ...

The debt limit fight arose in mid-December after President-elect Donald Trump demanded at the eleventh hour that Republicans ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said that congressional Republicans plan to increase the nation’s borrowing limit as a part of a ...

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

Ron Johnson said he will not vote for Trump's plan to eliminate the debt limit, but will "negotiate in terms of how far" to ...

Democrats see potential for an agreement with the president-elect that permanently defuses the borrowing-limit threat.

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

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said he will vote against President-elect Donald Trump's plan to eliminate or raise the debt limit.

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

House Speaker Mike Johnson said cuts to Social Security and Medicare won't be part of the legislative plan being worked out ...

Trump cannot repeal the laws of arithmetic when the government hits the federal debt limit, as much as he may try in the ...