Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, in a letter on Friday to congressional leaders, said the Treasury would begin using ...

The new president and congressional leaders are meeting Tuesday to hash out a strategy for maintaining US creditworthiness and the government's ability to service $36 trillion in debt. Trump is deeply ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) in a Tuesday interview with The Hill’s Emily Brooks floated the possibility of working with ...

Congressional GOP leaders are in a massive pickle as they weigh how to deal with a looming deadline to raise the debt ceiling ...

In a recent social media post, Trump railed against the state of the debt ceiling and called the deal that put it on the 2025 agenda "one of the dumbest political decisions made in years." ...

The country was two days from default when Boehner cut a deal with President Barack Obama to raise the debt limit and slash spending. Since then, Republicans have repeatedly held the debt limit ...

Congress is already staring down a mid-March deadline to pass legislation to keep the government funded — and some lawmakers are already signaling openness to the idea of tackling the debt ceiling as ...

“I’m not wed to any of them,” he said. Striking a deal with Democrats to raise the debt ceiling would enrage the House’s conservative hard-liners. But President-elect Donald Trump — who ...

House and Senate GOP leaders are internally debating a possible deal with Democrats that would include government funding, California wildfire aid, a debt-limit hike and border security money ...

Long a focus of conservatives, the level of public borrowing is starting to concern left-leaning economists. Proposed ...

(JIM WATSON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) · JIM WATSON via Getty Images That's because Johnson dodged the issue with a promise to his House colleagues that any future debt ceiling deal would happen ...