Failing to raise the debt limit before the Treasury runs out of cash could trigger further credit downgrades and roil ...

The passage of the “Big, Beautiful Bill” and its $5 trillion debt-limit increase has averted the crisis for now but not forever. “Increasing the debt ceiling should […] ...

President Donald Trump's ambitious legislative package, the 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act,' proposes a controversial $5 ...

Senate fiscal hawks are making a steep set of demands in negotiations over the debt ceiling, driving an even harder bargain than the House rabble-rousers who won $2 trillion in cuts.. Sen. Mike ...

President-elect Donald Trump added a wrinkle to negotiations over a deal to fund the government when he called for an increase to the debt ceiling.

The debt ceiling, which caps the amount the federal government can borrow, had previously not been on the table during negotiations over a stopgap spending bill before Friday's midnight deadline ...

Trump had privately signaled to some lawmakers that he did support dealing with the debt limit in the year-end negotiations, according to Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Oklahoma) ...

DORAL, Fla. — Democrats in Congress are considering forcing a showdown over the debt limit to rein in President Donald Trump’s vast plans to reshape the U.S. economy and remake the federal ...

The national debt ceiling, or debt limit, is essentially a cap, decided by lawmakers, on how much debt the U.S. government can have. On Jan. 18, 2023, the last time we reached that limit, it sat ...

The past decade-plus has seen a number of showdowns in Congress over raising the debt ceiling, with negotiations going right up to the verge of the government missing a payment on the debt.

Republicans have long used the need to raise the debt ceiling as leverage in negotiations over federal spending, but now that there is total GOP control in Washington with the Trump administration ...