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

President-elect Trump and congressional Republicans are plotting how to address the nation’s debt limit this year. The debt ...

President-elect Trump wants congressional Republicans to figure out a way to avoid a default on the national debt after ...

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

As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, the U.S. government’s fiscal health is bleak, with debt and deficits ...

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

The U.S. is playing Russian roulette by not addressing the national debt. We need to get our act together before it's too ...

Janet L. Yellen, the outgoing Treasury secretary, urged lawmakers to raise the debt limit and protect the full faith and ...

A Congressional Budget Office report shows debt closing in on a post-World War II high as a share of GDP.

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

It dates back to 1917 when Congress passed a law raising the national debt ceiling to issue liberty bonds to fund World War I. It made sense then. Ever since, Congress has raised the ceiling 78 ...

Talk of linking an increase in the debt ceiling to a disaster relief bill for California is facing pushback from both ...