The new cohort of lawmakers could agree to once again suspend it. They could also get rid of the national debt cap altogether ...

Helping the millions of Americans who ran up bills because they were uninsured or couldn't cover out-of-pocket costs was one of her big causes as vice president.

Democrats see potential for an agreement with the president-elect that permanently defuses the borrowing-limit threat.

"Just last week, the national debt eclipsed $30 trillion," he said on that night in 2022. "As our national debt balloons, ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized a rule that will remove medical  bills from credit reports to end what the bureau called "coercive debt collection practices." ...

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

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Congress that the country could hit the debt ceiling as soon as Jan. 14 in a letter ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday the 2023 debt ceiling extension agreed by then House Speaker Kevin McCarthy ...

Although President-elect Donald Trump wanted to start 2025 without having to worry about the debt ceiling, he did not get his wish.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says her agency will need to start taking “extraordinary measures,” or special accounting ...

The federal debt limit has no practical value. This suggests that ending it would be a good idea. Yet the laws of unintended ...