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

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

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

Members of President Donald Trump’s own party could complicate his effort to avoid a standoff over extending the nation’s ...

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

As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, the U.S. government’s fiscal health is bleak, with debt and deficits ...

Jan. 18 (UPI) --President-elect Donald Trump will take charge of a federal government that will reach its self-imposed debt limit of $36 trillion a day after he is sworn in on Monday. The Treasury ...

The US Treasury said it’s expanding its use of special accounting measures to avert breaching the federal debt limit, which kicked back in earlier this month.

Khanna told Business Insider that a federal minimum wage increase has broad support and that Democrats "should force ...

The gigantic national debt is finally starting to spook financial markets. That could hamstring Trump's economic agenda.

The breach of the debt ceiling officially starts the clock on how long Trump and Congress will have to act to avoid a ...

In this edition of the Hot Seat, Mike Murphy from the Committee for Responsible Budget Policy addresses the $36 trillion ...