In 2023, a stalemate between then-President Joe Biden and congressional Republicans over the debt ceiling prompted panic among financial analysts and everyday Americans alike. The deal they struck, ...
With U.S. close to hitting its debt limit, officials sound warning bells. March 28, 2011— -- As Congress turns its attention to the budget and the country's fiscal situation, the debt ceiling ...
The debt ceiling does nothing to enforce fiscal discipline—and threatens real economic harm. Congress should drop this outdated and dangerous charade. President Trump is right. We should junk the debt ...
WASHINGTON -- The debt limit negotiations between GOP negotiators and the White House ended Friday night with no progress after meeting for roughly an hour and a half. And there's no set plans for the ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — In one of her last acts as Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen said her agency will start taking “extraordinary measures,” or special accounting maneuvers intended to prevent the nation ...
Republicans are grappling with the possibility they will soon have to work with the Democrats as a deadline to raise the debt ceiling threatens to fray party unity. Washington has until the late ...
President Donald Trump and key Senate Republicans are still grasping for a solution to the US government closing in on breaching its legal borrowing limit following a White House meeting Thursday. The ...
Since the start of President Donald Trump's second term, the weight of the world, or at least of global markets, international trade, and geopolitical relations, has fallen on the shoulders of ...
House Democrats are sending an early warning shot as the government’s borrowing window inches to a close: winning Democratic support for a debt-ceiling hike will come at a cost for Republicans. The ...
The House on Wednesday passed a Republican plan to suspend the U.S. borrowing limit until mid-May, postponing a fiscal standoff that could have torpedoed the U.S. economy and further damaged the GOP‘s ...
A proposed $5 trillion debt limit increase could make it hard for Republicans to maintain their fiscal hawk credibility. By Alan Rappeport Reporting from Washington For years, Republicans have warned ...