Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, in a letter on Friday to congressional leaders, said the Treasury would begin using ...

The nation will hit its roughly $36 trillion debt limit on Tuesday, when the Treasury Department will start taking ...

The US Treasury said it’s expanding its use of special accounting measures to avert breaching the federal debt limit, which kicked back in earlier this month.

The new president and congressional leaders are meeting Tuesday to hash out a strategy for maintaining US creditworthiness ...

President-elect Donald Trump will take charge of a federal government that will reach its self-imposed debt limit of $36 ...

President-elect Trump and congressional Republicans are plotting how to address the nation’s debt limit this year. The debt ...

WASHINGTON—The U.S. government is now constrained by its statutory debt limit, the Treasury Department said, prompting the ...

In one of her last acts as Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen says her agency will start taking “extraordinary measures,” or ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday rejected the idea of combining California wildfire aid with a debt ceiling hike, saying Democrats would oppose such a package if ...

As for the fire-aid-for-debt-limit trade, GOP lawmakers who first raised the idea with Trump at recent Mar-a-Lago meetings ...

President-elect Trump wants congressional Republicans to figure out a way to avoid a default on the national debt after ...

The Treasury Department will begin using accounting moves soon to keep from defaulting. The House Freedom Caucus says its ...