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

Republicans raised the debt ceiling multiple times. They had to: the debt ballooned under his watch just as it grew under his predecessors. The national debt grew by some $1.2 trillion in Trump's ...

Democrats in Congress are considering forcing a showdown over the debt limit to rein in President Donald Trump’s vast plans ...

When the debt limit is raised or suspended those funds will be paid back ... up government borrowing costs such that debt service next year will exceed spending on national security. Republicans, who ...

Caught between the debt and their tax base, Republicans are considering some novel ways to account for the cost of their ...

More than 20 states in the U.S. already have their versions of a sovereign wealth fund, Alaska's being the largest.

The national debt currently stands at more than ... various corners of the party are weighing how best to tackle the debt limit, particularly as some fiscal hawks press for steep spending cuts ...

Long a focus of conservatives, the level of public borrowing is starting to concern left-leaning economists. Proposed ...

In recent decades, however, increases to the ceiling have become highly charged politically and are sometimes inaccurately characterized as reckless actions adding to the national debt tab.

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 ...

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

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 ...