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

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

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

Secretary says Treasury will suspend investments in two government employee benefit funds through March 14, to claw back ...

Projections show steady budget deficits exceeding 5% of GDP, even assuming that the bulk of the 2017 tax cuts expire.

House Republicans are, once again, fighting internally about how they should address a major legislative priority. This time, ...

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

President-elect Donald Trump has called for either eliminating the debt limit or pushing it far into the future. Many ...

The Treasury Department will begin using accounting moves soon to keep from defaulting. The House Freedom Caucus says its ...

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

Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) said Monday that tying the debt limit to California aid for the recent deadly wildfires it has ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Tuesday said he is “not wed” to including a debt limit increase in the reconciliation package ...