There are public holders and government agencies, which all comes into play in the congressional debt ceiling battle.

Two decades of tax cuts, recession responses and bipartisan spending fueled more borrowing — contributing $25 trillion to the total and setting the stage for another federal showdown.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury took "extraordinary measures" to avoid defaulting on debt, giving lawmakers probably six ...

Though raising the government’s borrowing limit is typically a routine procedure, House Republicans are exploiting the ...

The U.S. national debt hit an all-time high of $31.5 trillion in January 2023. Precipitated in part by higher government ...

While President Joe Biden is pushing to raise the debt ceiling, Republicans insist the $31.4 trillion national debt is breaking the economy.  For all the sound and fury about raising the United States ...

Indiana’s Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels delivered the keynote address to the annual Conservative Political Action Committee ...

Claim: Roughly 25% of the nation's debt was incurred during the Trump Administration. Context: A bipartisan package of ...

After some accounting maneuvers the federal government continues running after hitting the debt ceiling of $31.4 trillion.

The US debt limit touched an all-time high of $31.41 trillion on Thursday. The debt ceiling is the legal limit on how much ...

The U.S. officially hit its $31.4 trillion debt ceiling on Thursday - launching a ticking time bomb toward a potentially ...