A debate over the debt ceiling is at the center of a dispute over funding that is pushing Washington to the brink of a ...

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Long an anachronism of American politics, the debt ceiling is back front and center on Capitol Hill as lawmakers grapple with trying to pass a budget. President-elect Donald Trump threw a monkey ...

Alexander Hamilton, whose financial acumen financed George Washington’s army, and very likely paved the way to win the ...

But the incoming president and vice president also added a new, significant wrinkle to negotiations when they urged Congress to raise or abolish the debt ceiling now, instead of next year.

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

Donald Trump hoped to avoid a debt ceiling fight in 2025, but it was not to be. Last month, Democrats and about three dozen of the most conservative Republicans made common cause to reject a plan ...

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President-elect Donald Trump confounded members of Congress and flipped the government spending debate on its head when he demanded a premature increase to the debt ceiling on “Biden’s watch ...