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 confounded members of Congress and flipped the government spending debate on its head when he ...

President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday that Congress should get rid of the debt ceiling. Here's what it is and what that ...

CDLAC has a population-based formula to determine the cap. CDLAC was created to set and allocate California's annual debt ...

America’s national debt has risen to $36 ... White House will run out of room to borrow if it keeps racking up debt at the current pace. Olivier Blanchard, a former chief economist at the ...

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

The best way for President Trump to end the debt crisis is to turn to an honest dollar defined in terms of gold.

US federal debt and budget deficits are at extreme ... because they’re assuming the fiscal crisis predicted by the current debt trajectory will be averted before it happens.

A new economic projection suggests Congress could be headed for a showdown over the U.S. debt limit by mid-June.

A debate over the debt ceiling is at the center of a dispute over funding that is pushing the possibility of a federal ...