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

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

Janet Yellen, the U.S. Treasury Secretary, on Friday cautioned that the government will reach its borrowing limit on Tuesday, ...

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

The US Treasury Department will start taking "extraordinary measures" next week to avoid risking a default on government debt, Secretary Janet Yellen said Friday, days before President-elect Donald ...

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

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that the government will reach its statutory borrowing limit on Tuesday and begin ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that the government would reach its statutory borrowing ...

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

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Democrat from Massachusetts, told Bessent she would support an effort by President-elect Donald Trump to abolish the debt ceiling, the legal limit on U.S government borrowing ...

Like Clinton before him, Trump now faces the prospect of bond vigilantes becoming a potent check on his policy agenda, ...

The speaker acknowledged the borrowing limit could be included in government funding talks — where he’ll need Democratic ...