The federal debt limit has no practical value. This suggests that ending it would be a good idea. Yet the laws of unintended ...

President-elect Trump is headed for a battle over the debt limit with conservative lawmakers who are demanding steep cuts to ...

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

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said her department is likely to begin taking special accounting maneuvers sometime in ...

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

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

Giving Congress an unlimited credit card will only accelerate the ruinous fiscal path we’re on — but if Trump is serious ...

The Treasury Department on Friday said the government is beginning to run out of money to finance its debt obligations.

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

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