The federal debt limit has no practical value. This suggests that ending it would be a good idea. Yet the laws of unintended ...

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

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

Donald Trump and his GOP allies in Congress have recently shared some of the first details of their ambitious agenda — ...

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 increase it.

A key deadline for the government's borrowing limit is rapidly approaching, but lawmakers may not have to deal with it until ...

The nation’s debt ceiling was reinstated Thursday, giving congressional Republicans yet another divisive challenge to contend ...

A new debt ceiling established this week sets up a coming debate about averting default. The parameters of that standoff are ...

GOP leaders are staring down two bad options to solve President-elect Donald Trump’s debt-limit problem, after failing to execute his demand to lift the federal borrowing cap in the last ...

Fresh off his reelection as speaker, Mike Johnson hyped up Republicans’ ambitious agenda for the new year and pledged to take ...

The new cohort of lawmakers could agree to once again suspend it. They could also get rid of the national debt cap altogether ...