If lawmakers do not raise or suspend the debt limit before all extraordinary measures are exhausted, the government could ...

The United States is on track to hit its statutory debt ceiling — the so-called X-date when the country runs short of money ...

Sen. Ron Wyden (R-Ore.) on Monday said Democrats shouldn’t help Republicans tackle the debt ceiling this Congress, after a ...

The federal government could default on its debt as soon as July, a new forecast from the Bipartisan Policy Center warns, raising pressure on Congress for action. The prominent think tank ...

The Bipartisan Policy Center estimates that the so-called X-date could fall between mid-July and early October if Congress does not lift or suspend the nation’s debt limit. By Alan Rappeport ...

Then-Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen ... the new limit later that month. Republicans have had ambitious hopes of using a special maneuver known as budget reconciliation to handle the debt ceiling ...

WASHINGTON — The United States could run out of cash to continue paying its bills by mid-July if Congress does not take action to raise or suspend the nation’s debt limit, according to an ...

Janet Yellen is quietly furious with Elon ... She’s thought a lot about this in the context of the debt ceiling – a limit set by Congress on how much the US government can borrow.

It instructs the House Ways and Means Committee to increase the debt limit by $4 trillion ... which former Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned would expire in mid-March. The budget would ...