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

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

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

President-elect Donald Trump will take charge of a federal government that will reach its self-imposed debt limit of $36 ...

She sent a letter in late December to lawmakers stating that Treasury expected to hit the statutory debt ceiling between January 14 and January 23. And now, the agency will stop paying into certain ...

On that last front, he made some news, saying he wants his party to not vote to raise the nation’s debt limit unless they extract some policy wins in exchange. "It would be political malpractice for ...

The new president and congressional leaders are meeting Tuesday to hash out a strategy for maintaining US creditworthiness ...

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

The Treasury Department will begin using accounting moves soon to keep from defaulting. The House Freedom Caucus says its ...

Lenders have let borrowers pay interest with more debt to conserve cash. Like any financial maneuver, the short-term solution can’t weather a prolonged high-interest environment.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday rejected the idea of combining California wildfire aid with a debt ...