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

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

This letter serves to notify you, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 8348(l)(2), of the extraordinary measures that Treasury will begin ...

Forty-nine House Republicans and a dozen senators have never voted for a law to raise the debt limit, highlighting issues the ...

David Dee Delgado / Getty Images The U.S. government hit its congressionally-set debt limit on Tuesday, setting up a potential showdown over lifting or extending the debt ceiling. The Treasury ...

DORAL, Fla. — Democrats in Congress are considering forcing a showdown over the debt limit to rein in President Donald Trump’s vast plans to reshape the U.S. economy and remake the federal ...

Janet Yellen, US treasury secretary, wrote in a letter to congressional leaders Friday that she was advising them “of the ...

High atop his agenda for the second day is a topic that won't be quite so simple: the debt ceiling. In fact, Trump is deeply unhappy the issue is on the table at all. The newly inaugurated ...

Congressional GOP leaders are in a massive pickle as they weigh how to deal with a looming deadline to raise the debt ceiling. President Trump is pressuring Republicans to not allow Democrats to ...

Get the facts on the debt ceiling. The debt ceiling is *** cap on how much the country can borrow to pay for what's already been spent. This is like paying off your credit card with money you're ...