WASHINGTON -- While the concept of the debt ceiling might seem "in the weeds," it actually poses a very real threat to millions of Americans in a precarious economic period. If lawmakers on Capitol ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congress is taking action Thursday to avert a government shutdown. However, lawmakers are doing so by not addressing the debt ceiling. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has said if ...

The federal debt limit is not the same as funding the government. If the U.S. defaults on its debt, the ramifications are different than when Congress fails to fund the government. The recently ...

I’m so confused about all this hysterical talk about a debt ceiling. I thought we dealt with this in December, or maybe April. No, those were the and the federal budget for this year. This is a ...

In contrast, a high national debt simply reflects that the government has issued a lot of currency that the public and ...

Rachel Maddow took on the Republicans’ decision to temporarily raise debt ceiling, delaying the coming fight for another few months, by looking deeper into spending under President Obama. Maddow ...

Republicans have long used the need to raise the debt ceiling as leverage in negotiations over federal spending, but now that there is total GOP control in Washington with the Trump administration ...

Welcome to this week’s Founder Focus! I’m Melissa Angell, Inc.‘s policy correspondent, and each week I’ll be dissecting some of the top policy issues small businesses face. You can sign up to get this ...

The U.S. government will reach its borrowing limit on Tuesday, according to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. The Treasury Department will take "extraordinary measures" to avoid breaching the debt ...

In a symbolic vote that underscored the continuing impasse over how to pay the nation's bills, the House on Saturday defeated a Senate proposal to raise the debt ceiling. But shortly after the latest ...