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

Among the measures being debated by Congress to avert a government shutdown is increasing the debt ceiling — or eliminating ...

President-elect Donald Trump confounded members of Congress and flipped the government spending debate on its head when he ...

The debt ceiling is the limit placed by Congress on the amount of debt the government can accrue. In order to pay its bills ...

The reality is that a U.S. government default would be unprecedented, and many experts have said it would likely lead 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 ...

President-elect Trump wields tremendous power among GOP lawmakers in the House and Senate, but his struggle to convince ...

Democrats have long called for eliminating the debt ceiling. Sen. Elizabeth Warren signaled support for Trump's unexpected ...

Months before many officials in Washington — and investors in the bond market — anticipated, the federal debt ceiling has ...

President-elect Donald Trump says he would prefer the US debt ceiling being completely abolished — not just raised — as ...

President-elect Trump has thrown a wrench into government funding negotiations with his call to eliminate the debt ceiling ...

CDLAC has a population-based formula to determine the cap. CDLAC was created to set and allocate California's annual debt ...