Two decades of tax cuts, recession responses and bipartisan spending fueled more borrowing — contributing $25 trillion to the total and setting the stage for another federal showdown.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury took "extraordinary measures" to avoid defaulting on debt, giving lawmakers probably six ...

There are public holders and government agencies, which all comes into play in the congressional debt ceiling battle.

Advocates say such a coin would be one option to bypass the debt ceiling, but others believe the measure would not be legally ...

The United States officially hit its congressionally authorized borrowing limit of $31.381 trillion on Thursday, forcing the ...

Reckless borrowing and spending are what got us into this fiscal mess and more of the same won’t get us out.  There is no ...

Right now, the US national debt is at over $31 trillion and getting higher by the second. Part of what’s feeding this debt is rampant spending and borrowing that our nation can’t afford. On a ...

Though raising the government’s borrowing limit is typically a routine procedure, House Republicans are exploiting the ...

The U.S. national debt hit an all-time high of $31.5 trillion in January 2023. Precipitated in part by higher government ...

While President Joe Biden is pushing to raise the debt ceiling, Republicans insist the $31.4 trillion national debt is breaking the economy.  For all the sound and fury about raising the United States ...

Claim: Roughly 25% of the nation's debt was incurred during the Trump Administration. Context: A bipartisan package of ...

The US debt limit touched an all-time high of $31.41 trillion on Thursday. The debt ceiling is the legal limit on how much ...