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 ...

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

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Donald Trump's first day in office featured a flurry of executive moves he was able to dramatically sign with a stroke of the pen. High atop his agenda for the second day is a topic that won't be ...

In December, he called for abolishing the debt ceiling entirely and said the issue was part of what he called a Democratic "trap." In one December post, Trump railed against the issue and called the ...