GOP ponders how to raise the debt ceiling despite dozens of members who've always held out
Forty-nine House Republicans and a dozen senators have never voted for a law to raise the debt limit, highlighting issues the ...
US will hit debt limit on Tuesday, Treasury's Yellen warns in letter. What happens next?
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, in a letter on Friday to congressional leaders, said the Treasury would begin using ...
The U.S. Has Hit The Debt Ceiling. How Long Does Congress Have To Fix It?
The government exceeded its borrowing limit on Trump's second day in office, leaving the new government with an uncertain ...
Trump now must confront a problem he can’t solve alone: The debt ceiling
The new president and congressional leaders are meeting Tuesday to hash out a strategy for maintaining US creditworthiness ...
US Treasury Adds Measure to Avert a Debt-Ceiling Breach
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.
Jeffries says attaching debt limit to wildfire aid is ‘nonstarter’
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday rejected the idea of combining California wildfire aid with a debt ...
Federal government to hit $36T debt limit on Tuesday
President-elect Donald Trump will take charge of a federal government that will reach its self-imposed debt limit of $36 ...
U.S. Starts Maneuvers to Avoid Breaching Debt Limit, Putting Pressure on Congress
WASHINGTON—The U.S. government is now constrained by its statutory debt limit, the Treasury Department said, prompting the ...
Yellen says Treasury will use 'extraordinary measures' on Jan. 21 to prevent hitting debt ceiling
In one of her last acts as Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen says her agency will start taking “extraordinary measures,” or ...
5 ways the debt limit fight could play out under Trump
President-elect Trump and congressional Republicans are plotting how to address the nation’s debt limit this year. The debt ...
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Jeffries draws red line on debt-for-aid deal: ‘Nonstarter’
Top House Democrats are pouring cold water on a Republican proposal to trade a debt limit increase for California wildfire ...
Trump pushes Hill GOP on recess appointments, debt limit
As for the fire-aid-for-debt-limit trade, GOP lawmakers who first raised the idea with Trump at recent Mar-a-Lago meetings ...