Republicans have leveraged the debt ceiling for years to block Democrats’ agenda. Now liberals see an opening to stymy Trump.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) in a Tuesday interview with The Hill’s Emily Brooks floated the possibility of working with ...

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 ...

Members of President Donald Trump’s own party could complicate his effort to avoid a standoff over extending the nation’s ...

The government exceeded its borrowing limit on Trump's second day in office, leaving the new government with an uncertain ...

The federal government will hit its debt limit one day after President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration – at which point “extraordinary measures” will be taken to keep the US from ...

On Tuesday, the Treasury Department started taking "extraordinary measures" to avoid breaching the debt ceiling while urging ...

When the debt limit is raised or suspended those funds will be paid back and federal retirees and workers won’t be affected ...

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.