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

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

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

The move, which comes less than two weeks before President-elect Donald Trump is set to take office, represents a challenge to the new administration.

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

The nation’s debt ceiling was reinstated Thursday, giving congressional Republicans yet another divisive challenge to contend ...

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

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

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." ...

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

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said her agency will need to start taking "extraordinary measures" or special accounting maneuvers intended to prevent the nation from hitting the debt ceiling by ...