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 ...

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

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

Republicans have leveraged the debt ceiling for years to block Democrats’ agenda. Now liberals see an opening to stymy Trump.

Almost exactly one year after Congress swore off self-inflicted fiscal crises, we're back to the same tired theatrics.

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." ...

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 ...

The breaching of the US debt limit could expose 2 bullish catalysts for stock prices: lower interest rates and gridlock among ...

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 ...