The nation’s debt ceiling was reinstated Thursday, giving congressional Republicans yet another divisive challenge to contend ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said the extension of the debt ceiling will "go down as one of the dumbest political ...

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Without a speaker, lawmakers cannot formally certify Donald Trump's win, raising personal stakes for the president-elect to ...

President-elect Trump on Sunday harshly criticized the House GOP, and former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), for voting to ...

A new debt ceiling established this week sets up a coming debate about averting default. The parameters of that standoff are ...

The new cohort of lawmakers could agree to once again suspend it. They could also get rid of the national debt cap altogether ...

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

Newly reelected House Speaker Mike Johnson on Sunday highlighted his and President-elect Donald Trump's plans to pass one "big, beautiful" budget reconciliation package through Congress and said he ...

The Treasury Secretary said that officials will soon have to start taking extraordinary measures to avert such a default, ...

The speaker of the US House said Sunday he was pushing an "aggressive" timeframe for getting a multi-trillion-dollar bill addressing immigration, tax cuts and more to Donald Trump's desk by April, ...

Republicans may not have a functioning legislative majority by the time those fights begin. The GOP won 220 seats in November ...