President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he wants the U.S. Congress to extend the nation's debt ceiling, adding that ...

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The new cohort of lawmakers could agree to once again suspend it. They could also get rid of the national debt cap altogether ...

The speaker of the US House said Sunday he was pushing an "aggressive" timeframe for getting a multi-trillion-dollar bill ...

President-elect Donald Trump stressed in a meeting with the Senate GOP on Wednesday that he wants to pass his agenda as ...

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such as the sequester and failing to raise the debt ceiling; and increase economic growth in the United States through education, infrastructure, immigration, and tax reforms.

In this guide to the United States National Debt, we discuss the amount of the country’s debt, what’s included in it, who manages the debt, the country’s debt ceiling, how it raises loans, and who ...

The federal debt limit has no practical value. This suggests that ending it would be a good idea. Yet the laws of unintended ...

A unified government under President-elect Donald Trump is unlikely to lead to a quick resolution of the U.S. debt-ceiling ...