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

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

A key deadline for the government's borrowing limit is rapidly approaching, but lawmakers may not have to deal with it until ...

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

The Treasury Department on Friday said the government is beginning to run out of money to finance its debt obligations.

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 ...

Rather than a restraint, it serves as an incentive for more spending. The time is ripe for lasting reforms.

Janet Yellen is asking Congress to raise or suspend the debt limit so the treasury can keep paying its bills until June.