This week marks the biggest test yet for the speakership of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. McCarthy needs to show that he can keep his members together to approve the Republican version of a ...

House Democrats need at least five Republican defections for their debt ceiling backup plan to prevail. So far, Republicans don’t appear to be interested. The plan, which was teased in a letter to ...

The department has a plan to build on modular modernization advances piloted in New Jersey, but provisions in the debt ceiling compromise legislation could claw back funding pledged in the American ...

If the debt ceiling deal hammered out between President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-California, passes Congress and is signed into law by the president, the pause on federally funded ...

House Republican leaders are moving behind the scenes to get their conference behind a plan that would raise the debt ceiling for one year with a slew of cuts and revenue raisers, a move intended to ...

The Greater Good: That’s the lesson now that the debt-limit deal has been approved by the U.S. House and Senate, economists say. Yes, some senators are angry about defense spending, work requirements ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After House Speaker Kevin McCarthy briefed House Republicans on the outlines of a bill to raise the debt ceiling in exchange for ...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that despite the government hitting the debt ceiling months ago, there has been no plan for prioritizing payments presented to the president. As lawmakers struggle ...

Oscar Gonzalez is a Texas native who covered video games, conspiracy theories, misinformation and cryptocurrency. US President Joe Biden signed off on the Biden-McCarthy debt ceiling plan on Saturday ...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday slammed the Republican plan for what the United States should do if it hits the debt limit. The GOP has refused to lift the debt ceiling until major budget ...