President Donald Trump and key Senate Republicans are still grasping for a solution to the US closing in on the debt ceiling ...

The Louisiana senator has been tapped to consult with the president on a strategy for avoiding a federal default.

The current debt-ceiling impasse could threaten the Federal Reserve’s ongoing balance-sheet runoff causing gyrations in the ...

A key House Republican projected Wednesday that the US could hit the debt ceiling as soon as mid-May, several months sooner ...

Large swaths of the US government would be forced to stop operating at midnight on March 14 if Congress does not pass ...

As Congress moves toward the 33rd temporary reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program due Friday, lawmakers are ...

The national debt can lead to higher inflation, higher interest rates, leave the country vulnerable to financial crises, and ...

The US Treasury hit its $36 trillion debt ceiling a day after President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20. A “debt issuance suspension period” began then and was set to last until March ...

Exceeding it could do irrevocable damage to the U.S. credit rating, interest rates and the dollar.

The two political parties expected to form the next German government have agreed to significantly loosen the country’s ...