GOP leaders in debt limit quandary between Trump, fiscal hawks
Congressional GOP leaders are in a massive pickle as they weigh how to deal with a looming deadline to raise the debt ceiling ...
US will hit debt limit on Tuesday, Treasury's Yellen warns in letter. What happens next?
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, in a letter on Friday to congressional leaders, said the Treasury would begin using ...
US Treasury Adds Measure to Avert a Debt-Ceiling Breach
The US Treasury said it’s expanding its use of special accounting measures to avert breaching the federal debt limit, which kicked back in earlier this month.
Federal government to hit $36T debt limit on Tuesday
President-elect Donald Trump will take charge of a federal government that will reach its self-imposed debt limit of $36 ...
Jeffries says attaching debt limit to wildfire aid is ‘nonstarter’
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday rejected the idea of combining California wildfire aid with a debt ...
Yellen says Treasury will use 'extraordinary measures' on Jan. 21 to prevent hitting debt ceiling
In one of her last acts as Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen says her agency will start taking “extraordinary measures,” or ...
U.S. Starts Maneuvers to Avoid Breaching Debt Limit, Putting Pressure on Congress
WASHINGTON—The U.S. government is now constrained by its statutory debt limit, the Treasury Department said, prompting the ...
5 ways the debt limit fight could play out under Trump
President-elect Trump and congressional Republicans are plotting how to address the nation’s debt limit this year. The debt ...
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Jeffries draws red line on debt-for-aid deal: ‘Nonstarter’
Top House Democrats are pouring cold water on a Republican proposal to trade a debt limit increase for California wildfire ...
Trump pushes Hill GOP on recess appointments, debt limit
As for the fire-aid-for-debt-limit trade, GOP lawmakers who first raised the idea with Trump at recent Mar-a-Lago meetings ...
US to hit debt ceiling Tuesday, starting Congress’ countdown clock
The nation will hit its roughly $36 trillion debt limit on Tuesday, when the Treasury Department will start taking ...