Senate Majority Leader John Thune says he'll follow the parliamentarian's rulings, but he'll be pressured not to ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said that congressional Republicans plan to increase the nation’s borrowing limit as a part of a ...

Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said Tuesday that eliminating the debt ceiling is the only area “I really agree with Donald Trump ...

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

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

House Speaker Mike Johnson wants to include one of President-elect Donald Trump’s top priorities inside a colossal border and ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday the 2023 debt ceiling extension agreed by then House Speaker Kevin McCarthy ...

President-elect Trump is headed for a battle over the debt limit with conservative lawmakers who are demanding steep cuts to ...

Giving Congress an unlimited credit card will only accelerate the ruinous fiscal path we’re on — but if Trump is serious ...

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said he will vote against President-elect Donald Trump's plan to eliminate or raise the debt limit.

About a week ago, with U.S. government discretionary funding due to expire on Dec. 20, Trump, encouraged by billionaire Elon Musk, demanded the debt limit either be eliminated or extended ...

Conservatives now say Trump will need to agree to deep cuts in spending if he wants their support for raising the debt limit in 2025. “We’re about 33 percent overdrawn.