Alexander Hamilton, whose financial acumen financed George Washington’s army, and very likely paved the way to win the ...

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 ...

You may have missed it amid your New Year’s Eve revelry, but the United States Congress is now, as of the stroke of midnight on Jan. 1, officially in violation of the federal debt limit. That’s ...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said her agency will need to start taking "extraordinary measures," or special accounting ...

Johnson revealed he had met with House Republicans on Saturday to discuss the “America First agenda" before Trump's inauguration later this month.

U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson was reelected to the chamber's top job on Friday by a razor-thin margin ...

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-Benton, talks briefly to reporters just before a vote on an interim spending bill to ...

Now Republicans again will be in control as the 119th Congress convenes today. U.S. Rep. Glenn Thompson, R-Centre, ticked off ...

The debate over the debt limit has exposed rifts among Republicans, who will take full control of Congress on Friday.

In the wake of his death, hundreds of obituaries have memorialized President Jimmy Carter as a devoted and disciplined public ...

Donald Trump has two words for his controversial Cabinet nominees: Be quiet. The president-elect’s chief of staff, Susie ...