Republicans have leveraged the debt ceiling for years to block Democrats’ agenda. Now liberals see an opening to stymy Trump.

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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 ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson said he'd be willing to negotiate with Democrats to raise the debt ceiling, something President ...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, in a letter on Friday to congressional leaders, said the Treasury would begin using ...

The new president and congressional leaders are meeting Tuesday to hash out a strategy for maintaining US creditworthiness ...

On that last front, he made some news, saying he wants his party to not vote to raise the nation’s debt limit unless they extract some policy wins in exchange. "It would be political malpractice for ...

The Treasury will begin extraordinary measures Tuesday, potentially draining the TGA account in a positive development for ...

The incoming president and his Republican allies are beginning to plot out major changes to federal taxes and spending as ...

The gigantic national debt is finally starting to spook financial markets. That could hamstring Trump's economic agenda.

The nation will hit its roughly $36 trillion debt limit on Tuesday ... which would likely cause global economic upheaval. The extraordinary measures, which are mainly behind-the-scenes accounting ...