House Speaker Mike Johnson said one of President Trump’s top priorities, increasing the debt limit, will now be part of ...

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

In this video, Marco from Whiteboard Finance breaks down the 2023 U.S. debt ceiling crisis and what it means for the economy, ...

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 ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson said he'd be willing to negotiate with Democrats to raise the debt ceiling, something President ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that his department is conducting outreach to major holders of government securities to get a better picture on their thoughts on the federal debt limit.

Democratic Rep. Scott Peters and Republican Rep. Bill Huizenga of Michigan reintroduced a bipartisan bill last week to reform ...

OPM also collaborates with the US Treasury to remain within the debt ceiling by borrowing from federal retirement funds when ...

But the Trump administration’s power grab also threatens to exacerbate another impending crisis: the fight over raising America’s debt limit. In fact, the interaction between these two crises ...

The debt ceiling was set by the previous Labor government in 2021-22 when debt was $10bn. Mr Yan said “open and transparent” ...

Spending power, privacy concerns and conflicts of interest have put the bureau at the center of a political fight.