Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a news conference at Mar-a-Lago on December 16, 2024, in Palm Beach, Florida. (Andrew ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The debt ceiling is the limit placed by Congress on the amount of debt the government can accrue. In order to pay its bills to ...

A debate over the debt ceiling is at the center of a dispute over funding that is pushing Washington to the brink of a federal government shutdown. President-elect Donald Trump has demanded that a ...

The federal debt ceiling is back in the news yet again. The U.S. still has a little time to hit its debt ceiling, but President-elect Donald Trump's eleventh-hour demand that Congress suspend the debt ...

As Washington lurches from one financial crisis to another, the next threat to the government defaulting on its bills could come as early as mid-July, according to a new analysis. The “X date” could ...

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 ...

A debate over the debt ceiling is at the center of a dispute over funding that is pushing Washington to the brink of a federal government shutdown. President-elect Donald Trump has demanded that a ...