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

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

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

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

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 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.

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 ...

Addressing the debt limit in reconciliation is not “completely ... policy “that’s going to help us right the ship” as the national debt tops $36 trillion. “Listen, I prefer putting ...