D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said on Tuesday that the District will begin to implement a list of “extraordinary measures” –  from ...

The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the U.S. faces the risk of defaulting on its debt in August or September if lawmakers don't act to raise the debt limit before then.

If lawmakers do not raise or suspend the debt limit before all extraordinary measures are exhausted, the government could ...

The United States is on track to hit its statutory debt ceiling — the so-called X-date when the country runs short of money ...

Recent reports from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Bipartisan Policy Center estimate that the debt ceiling, ...

"The Congressional Budget Office estimates that if the debt limit remains unchanged, the government's ability to borrow using extraordinary measures will probably be exhausted in August or ...

The U.S. government will probably risk defaulting on some of its $36.6 trillion in debt as soon as August - or possibly even by late May - unless Congress acts to raise the nation's debt ceiling, the ...

It relies on estimates of how much wiggle room the Treasury has to use accounting maneuvers — known as “extraordinary measures” — to keep paying the government’s bills by shifting money ...