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

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 ...

While many Democrats and budget experts see the debt ceiling as a problem, some fiscal conservatives think it has helped ...

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

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

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

Donald Trump wants Congress to abolish the debt limit before he takes office and it is pushing the government to the brink of ...

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

House Republicans are eyeing a new spending proposal that would tee up votes on three separate measures: to fund the ...

Government workers have already been told to prepare for a federal shutdown which would send millions of employees — and ...

Among the measures being debated by Congress to avert a government shutdown is increasing the debt ceiling — or eliminating ...