There was a first-day-of-school energy on Capitol Hill as members of Congress took their oaths and Speaker Mike Johnson fought for his job.

You may have missed it amid your New Year’s Eve revelry, but the United States Congress is now, as of the stroke of midnight ...

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

However, the debt limit suspension was removed from the bill, leading to a dramatic 24 hours on Capitol Hill, with Congress on the brink of a shutdown. The GOP faces division ...

The federal debt limit expires Jan. 1, and Trump doesn’t want the first months of his new administration saddled with tough negotiations in Congress to lift the nation’s borrowing capacity.

Pic: AP A restructured plan from House Speaker Mike Johnson dropped Mr Trump's demands for a debt limit increase into the new year. Mr Johnson had insisted Congress would "meet our obligations ...

WASHINGTON -- With a government shutdown narrowly avoided Friday night, the House and Senate sent a funding bill to President Joe Biden's desk. An initial bipartisan deal was tanked earlier this ...

The Senate will now depart for the holidays, and return on January 3, 2025, when the 119th Congress will be sworn in. House Speaker Mike Johnson said the House will address the debt limit "early ...

Republicans were openly calling for a shutdown, then whipped to accept a new deal under House Speaker Mike Johnson, while leaving out Trump’s central demand to abolish the debt ceiling.