Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said he will vote against President-elect Donald Trump's plan to eliminate or raise the debt limit.

Alexander Hamilton, whose financial acumen financed George Washington’s army, and very likely paved the way to win the American Revolution, was a big fan of the national debt. “A national debt, if it ...

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

Although President-elect Donald Trump wanted to start 2025 without having to worry about the debt ceiling, he did not get his wish.

GOP leaders are staring down two bad options to solve President-elect Donald Trump’s debt-limit problem, after failing to execute his demand to lift the federal borrowing cap in the last ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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