Republicans, keen to dodge a shutdown, decided to only introduce a one-vote spending package.

A debate over the debt ceiling is at the center of a dispute over funding that is pushing Washington to the brink of a ...

A debate over the debt ceiling is at the center of a disputethat is pushing Washington to the brink of a federal government ...

President-elect Donald Trump added a wrinkle to negotiations over a deal to fund the government when he called for an ...

President-elect Donald Trump confounded members of Congress and flipped the government spending debate on its head when he ...

The reality is that a U.S. government default would be unprecedented, and many experts have said it would likely lead to ...

The debt ceiling is the limit placed by Congress on the amount of debt the government can accrue. In order to pay its bills ...

In a phone interview with NBC News, Trump said getting rid of the debt ceiling entirely would be the “smartest thing it ...

President-elect Donald Trump Trump said lawmakers should oppose any sweeping spending measure that includes "traps" and ...

Months before many officials in Washington — and investors in the bond market — anticipated, the federal debt ceiling has ...

Republican hardliners who normally are ardent supporters of President-elect Donald Trump are resisting his push to raise the ...

Large swaths of the U.S. government could temporarily close at midnight on Friday if Congress does not approve a stopgap ...