Speaker Mike Johnson and House Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington are meeting with a key bloc of House conservatives Wednesday ...

Wall Street's biggest banks have pushed back the expected endgame for the Federal Reserve's ongoing efforts to shrink the ...

There has been endless speculation about the chaos that may (or may not) await America and the world following US ...

The debt brake was this limit on government debt and deficits that was introduced in the first Merkel grand coalition, in ...

President-elect Donald Trump said during a wide-ranging press conference at Mar-a-Lago he would not rule out military force ...

"The size of the U.S. population that is credit strapped is so much bigger than people realize. We’re trying to solve this." ...

Fitch Ratings released a report warning that Congress could struggle to raise or suspend the debt limit while also dealing ...

Investors clutching cash might soon bear the brunt of a U.S. debt-ceiling fight, which could boil over in the next few weeks unless there's a sudden resolution.

House Speaker Mike Johnson said cuts to Social Security and Medicare won't be part of the legislative plan being worked out ...

The debt limit fight arose in mid-December after President-elect Donald Trump demanded at the eleventh hour that Republicans ...

Ron Johnson said he will not vote for Trump's plan to eliminate the debt limit, but will "negotiate in terms of how far" to ...

Democrats see potential for an agreement with the president-elect that permanently defuses the borrowing-limit threat.