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 ...

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

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

When the debt limit is raised or suspended those funds will be paid back and federal retirees and workers won’t be affected ...

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 ...

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

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 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 ...