Crane said he told House Speaker Mike Moyle, R-Star, that voters in the May primary chose Republicans who want school ...

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 ...

The federal government is projected to hit the debt limit on Jan. 1, but Treasury Department officials will be able to postpone the deadline for Congress to act until the summer by invoking ...

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 on Jan. 1, officially in violation of the federal debt limit. That’s ...

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.

When the new Congress convenes Friday, there will be fewer people of color in the delegation than in recent years. The 119th Congress will have 136 people of color, four fewer than the previous U ...

But once those measures run out the government risks defaulting on its debt unless lawmakers and the president agree to lift the limit on the U.S. government's ability to borrow. "I respectfully urge ...

In theory, such an institution already exists. It’s called the U.S. Congress, and the founders envisioned it as the dominant branch of government. In practice, however, many Americans don’t ...

Trump made a last-minute demand to raise the debt ceiling as part of a short-term funding bill, wanting to remove the threat of Democrats using it as a leverage point later in 2025. Johnson ...

If Washington policy constraints – remember Republicans have very slim majorities in Congress – limit the extent to which the U.S. fiscal deficit can shrink at the same time the government is ...