A debate over the debt ceiling is at the center of a dispute over funding that is pushing Washington to the brink of a ...

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

President-elect Donald Trump confounded members of Congress and flipped the government spending debate on its head when he ...

The reality is that a U.S. government default would be unprecedented, and many experts have said it would likely lead to ...

A debate over the debt ceiling is at the center of a dispute over funding that is pushing Washington to the brink of a ...

The debt ceiling is the limit placed by Congress on the amount of debt the government can accrue. In order to pay its bills ...

President-elect Donald Trump Trump said lawmakers should oppose any sweeping spending measure that includes "traps" and ...

In a phone interview with NBC News, Trump said getting rid of the debt ceiling entirely would be the “smartest thing it ...

Months before many officials in Washington — and investors in the bond market — anticipated, the federal debt ceiling has ...

Republican hardliners who normally are ardent supporters of President-elect Donald Trump are resisting his push to raise the ...

CNN’s Michael Smerconish breaks down the averted shutdown for parts of the US government and the push to eliminate the debt ...

Large swaths of the U.S. government could temporarily close at midnight on Friday if Congress does not approve a stopgap ...