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

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

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday rejected the idea of combining California wildfire aid with a debt ceiling hike, saying Democrats would oppose such a package if ...

The government exceeded its borrowing limit on Trump's second day in office, leaving the new government with an uncertain ...

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

As for the fire-aid-for-debt-limit trade, GOP lawmakers who first raised the idea with Trump at recent Mar-a-Lago meetings ...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Friday the nation will hit its debt ceiling the day after President Trump is inaugurated and that the agency will begin “extraordinary measures” to stave off ...

The United States’ $36 trillion debt ceiling signals lower liquidity until March 14, which could lead to a temporary Bitcoin ...

In one of her last acts as Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen says her agency will start taking “extraordinary measures,” or ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that it is a "non-starter" to attach California wildfire aid to a debt limit increase, throwing cold water on an idea floated by Speaker ...

Projections show steady budget deficits exceeding 5% of GDP, even assuming that the bulk of the 2017 tax cuts expire.

The nation will hit its roughly $36 trillion debt limit on Tuesday, when the Treasury Department will start taking ...