President-elect Trump wields tremendous power among GOP lawmakers in the House and Senate, but his struggle to convince ...

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

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

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

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

CDLAC has a population-based formula to determine the cap. CDLAC was created to set and allocate California's annual debt ...

For about 48 hours last week, it looked like a debt ceiling fight in 2025 would be averted as ideas were floated to push the issue off until 2027 or 2029 (or even forever). But it was not to be.

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

President-elect Trump has thrown a wrench into government funding negotiations with his call to eliminate the debt ceiling ...

President-elect Trump reiterated his support for abolishing or raising the debt ceiling, after House Republicans failed to ...

President-elect Donald Trump has demanded that a provision raising or suspending the nation’s debt limit — something that his ...

President-elect Donald Trump was willing to risk a federal government shutdown in pressing Congress to pause or abolish the ...