President Donald Trump and key Senate Republicans are still grasping for a solution to the US government closing in on ...

As Congress moves toward the 33rd temporary reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program due Friday, lawmakers are ...

The Louisiana senator has been tapped to consult with the president on a strategy for avoiding a federal default.

The current debt-ceiling impasse could threaten the Federal Reserve’s ongoing balance-sheet runoff causing gyrations in the ...

The national debt can lead to higher inflation, higher interest rates, leave the country vulnerable to financial crises, and ...

A key House Republican projected Wednesday that the US could hit the debt ceiling as soon as mid-May, several months sooner ...

House Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith warned that the U.S. could hit its statutory debt limit by May, in comments at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. "We ...

Congress is stalled on the train tracks with very little time to avoid two oncoming locomotives,” writes columnist. “The first locomotive is the need to pass a ...

The two political parties expected to form the next German government have agreed to significantly loosen the country’s ...