Federal debt ceiling

National debt reached a record high of $34 trillion at the end of 2023, with the federal government’s total debt going up by $2.65 trillion.

Within the debt ceiling debate and negotiations between President Joe Biden and the Republican-led House of Representatives, both ...

With President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) agreeing to a deal to raise America’s debt ...

Commentary What’s $4 trillion among friends? Just a sop to distract Leviathan for a short while. He’ll snaffle ...

The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) reported that the U.S. government would likely default on its payment obligations sometime ...

Economists and experts warned a Senate committee hearing this week that the U.S. government is close to disaster ...

The United States could default on its debt sometime over the summer if the president and House Republicans ...

The Biden administration wants credit card late fees to be slashed to $8 and for Apple and Google ...

American voters are concerned about the country’s national debt, which has ballooned over the past decade, with many ...

Commentary Last week's struggle in the House of Representatives to select Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) as speaker of the ...

Talks between Senate party leaders on a deal to temporarily raise the debt ceiling by a fixed dollar ...

More than 100 House Republican members declared that they won't raise the debt ceiling, in a letter written ...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen urged Congress on Aug. 9 to raise the debt ceiling through "regular order," as ...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Friday urged congressional leaders to suspend or raise the national debt limit before Aug. 1. or face ...