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

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

A debate over the debt ceiling is at the center of a dispute over funding that is pushing Washington to the brink of a ...

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 ...

While many Democrats and budget experts see the debt ceiling as a problem, some fiscal conservatives think it has helped ...

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

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

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