Key Takeaways The U.S. government hit its congressionally-set debt limit on Tuesday, setting up a potential showdown over ...

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 ...

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

This letter serves to notify you, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 8348(l)(2), of the extraordinary measures that Treasury will begin ...

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

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

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

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

Khanna told Business Insider that a federal minimum wage increase has broad support and that Democrats "should force ...

More than a third of House Republicans have never voted for a debt ceiling hike, a daunting obstacle as President-elect Donad ...

On Wednesday's "Rob Schmitt Tonight," Senator Rand Paul joined to talk about President-elect Donald Trump's agenda, explained ...