Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Congress that the country could hit the debt ceiling as soon as Jan. 14 in a letter ...

The Speaker of the House of the 119th Congress is now facing several critical political fights while navigating a razor-thin ...

The Treasury secretary urged Congress to protect the full faith and credit of the United States by raising the debt limit.

The notification to Congress is the clearest sign yet that the fight to avoid default will likely take place in the early ...

A new debt ceiling established this week sets up a coming debate about averting default. The parameters of that standoff are ...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen suggested in a letter to Congress on Friday that the department doesn’t think the U.S. will need to take “extraordinary measures” on Jan. 2 to avoid ...

The nation’s debt ceiling was reinstated Thursday, giving congressional Republicans yet another divisive challenge to contend ...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said her department will soon need to take "extraordinary measures" to prevent the US from ...

Yellen said in the letter that the debt ceiling could be reached between Jan. 14 and Jan. 23, at which point the Treasury would, "start taking extraordinary measures," to prevent the country from ...

The notification to Congress is the clearest sign yet that the fight to avoid default will likely take place in the early ...