House Speaker Mike Johnson says “if you put all the measures into one package it increases greatly the probability of us ...

The debt limit fight arose in mid-December after President-elect Donald Trump demanded at the eleventh hour that Republicans ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday the 2023 debt ceiling extension agreed by then House Speaker Kevin McCarthy ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said congressional Republicans plan to increase the nation’s borrowing limit as a part of a ...

Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said Tuesday that eliminating the debt ceiling is the only area “I really agree with Donald Trump ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson wants to include one of President-elect Donald Trump’s top priorities inside a colossal border and ...

President Joe Biden has spent his final weeks in office looking to Trump-proof some of his biggest policy priorities, from ...

President-elect Donald Trump will meet with Senate Republicans to try to get lawmakers "on the same page" on how to advance ...

Conservatives now say Trump will need to agree to deep cuts in spending if he wants their support for raising the debt limit in 2025. “We’re about 33 percent overdrawn. We bring in about $4.8 ...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says her agency will need to start taking “extraordinary measures,” or special accounting ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune says he'll follow the parliamentarian's rulings, but he'll be pressured not to ...

President-elect Trump is headed for a battle over the debt limit with conservative lawmakers who are demanding steep cuts to federal spending that will significantly complicate Trump’s ability ...