Congressional GOP leaders are in a massive pickle as they weigh how to deal with a looming deadline to raise the debt ceiling ...

The government exceeded its borrowing limit on Trump's second day in office, leaving the new government with an uncertain ...

Members of President Donald Trump’s own party could complicate his effort to avoid a standoff over extending the nation’s ...

Republicans have leveraged the debt ceiling for years to block Democrats’ agenda. Now liberals see an opening to stymy Trump.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) in a Tuesday interview with The Hill’s Emily Brooks floated the possibility of working with ...

Some Republicans have long urged Treasury to choose which bills to pay when the debt ceiling gets close to being breached.

The House GOP largely wants what Trump has called a “big, beautiful bill” that would extend some $3 trillion in tax cuts and include funding for the president's mass deportation effort and border wall ...

During the Obama administration, especially during the period when Republicans controlled the House, there were several confrontations during which the debt ceiling was used as a political weapon ...

GOP leaders are trying to lasso various factions as the Senate races ahead with its own plan for President Donald Trump's tax ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson said he'd be willing to negotiate with Democrats to raise the debt ceiling, something President Trump has said he wants to get rid of entirely.