Alexander Hamilton, whose financial acumen financed George Washington’s army, and very likely paved the way to win the ...

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

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

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 ...

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

The new ceiling is the amount of outstanding debt subject to the limit at the end of the previous day. That figure stood at just over $36.1 trillion on December 31, up from $31.4 trillion in June ...

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

Consumer and Small Business Protection Act will shield student borrowers from unfair practices, saving them money and ...

Conservatives now say Trump will need to agree to deep cuts in spending if he wants their support for raising the debt limit in 2025. “We’re about 33 percent overdrawn. We bring in about $4.8 ...