Forty-nine House Republicans and a dozen senators have never voted for a law to raise the debt limit, highlighting issues the ...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, in a letter on Friday to congressional leaders, said the Treasury would begin using ...

The US Treasury said it’s expanding its use of special accounting measures to avert breaching the federal debt limit, which kicked back in earlier this month.

The new president and congressional leaders are meeting Tuesday to hash out a strategy for maintaining US creditworthiness ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday rejected the idea of combining California wildfire aid with a debt ...

President-elect Donald Trump will take charge of a federal government that will reach its self-imposed debt limit of $36 ...

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

WASHINGTON—The U.S. government is now constrained by its statutory debt limit, the Treasury Department said, prompting the ...

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

As for the fire-aid-for-debt-limit trade, GOP lawmakers who first raised the idea with Trump at recent Mar-a-Lago meetings ...

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

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's parting gift to Pres.-elect Donald Trump announced debt limit reached his first full day ...