A Congressional Budget Office report shows debt closing in on a post-World War II high as a share of GDP.

President-elect Donald Trump will take charge of a federal government that will reach its self-imposed debt limit of $36 ...

As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, the U.S. government’s fiscal health is bleak, Congress’s nonpartisan ...

In one of her last acts as Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen says her agency will start taking “extraordinary measures,” or ...

The last round of student loan forgiveness from the administration caps a tumultuous effort to deliver widespread relief to ...

With the government reaching its borrowing limit, the department would start making the moves on Tuesday, the day after the ...

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that the government will reach its statutory borrowing limit on Tuesday and begin ...

Outgoing Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said her department will start taking special accounting maneuvers as of Jan. 21 to ...

The US Treasury Department says it will take "extraordinary measures" from January 21, so that government debt will not ...

Treasury secretary Janet Yellen, in one of her final major acts in office, warned Congress late Friday that the Treasury will ...

The federal government will hit its debt limit one day after President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration – at which point ...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's parting gift to Pres.-elect Donald Trump announced debt limit reached his first full day back in office.