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

Bitcoin’s next significant price catalyst may arrive Friday as the US debt suspension period comes to an end, potentially ...

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

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

Yields on Treasury bills set to mature in July and August have been climbing, reflecting growing concerns the U.S.

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 ...

The debt ceiling is the legal limit on the total amount of federal debt that the US government can have outstanding. The X-date is when the US government will exhaust its extraordinary measures ...

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 ...

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 ...