Washington has until the late spring or summer to raise the borrowing limit past its $36 trillion cap, setting up a test with economy-reverberating consequences for Republicans.

It goes without saying that the national debt is rising every day as the “clock” continues to show the math heading in the ...

Republicans raised the debt ceiling multiple times. They had to: the debt ballooned under his watch just as it grew under his predecessors. The national debt grew by some $1.2 trillion in Trump's ...

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

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

DORAL, Fla. — Democrats in Congress are considering forcing a showdown over the debt limit to rein in President Donald Trump’s vast plans to reshape the U.S. economy and remake the federal ...

Profligate spending by the federal government causes inflation and inhibits the economic freedom of Americans.

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 ...