WASHINGTON — A deal has been reached between Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senator Mitch McConnell (R-K.Y.) to temporarily raise the debt ceiling and avoid a default by the Treasury ...

Republicans have reached a tentative deal to raise the limit on the state and local tax deduction to $40,000 a year for a five-year period, according to a person familiar with the matter.It wasn’t ...

By David Morgan, Bo Erickson and Davide Barbuscia WASHINGTON (Reuters) -As President Donald Trump's Republicans push ahead on a sweeping tax-cut and spending bill that nonpartisan analysts say could ...

Hudson County's Congressional delegation was split on the debt-ceiling deal that finally cleared the U.S. Senate today after a months-long impasse, though even supporters said they voted in favor ...

Even a brief debt ceiling breach of about one week would slash 1.5 million jobs, raising the unemployment rate from 3.4% to 5%, a Moody's Analytics report found in March.

New spending. Debt ceiling increased by $5 trillion; Nearly $150 billion in additional border security spending, including $46.5 billion to construct a U.S.-Mexico border wall and about $30 ...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., wrote that President Donald Trump was right about wanting to eliminate the debt ceiling, while still opposing the White House's large spending bill.

Despite weeks of negotiations, the White House and House Republicans were unable to reach a comprehensive agreement to overhaul environmental regulations and streamline federal permitting as part ...