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 ...

The federal government will hit its debt limit one day after President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration – at which point “extraordinary measures” will be taken to keep the US from ...

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

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 ...

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

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.

During the Obama administration, especially during the period when Republicans controlled the House, there were several confrontations during which the debt ceiling was used as a political weapon ...

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