Melissa Quinn is a senior reporter for CBSNews.com, where she covers U.S. politics, with a focus on the Supreme Court and federal courts. In a statement Wednesday, Trump and Vance lambasted the ...

President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday rejected Congress' bipartisan plan that would have temporarily funded the government and dodged a serious shutdown that could begin on Friday night. But Trump ...

We disagree with President Trump on many things, but we can find common ground on abolishing the debt ceiling. We’ve called ...

Fact: Almost every Republican in Congress is against voting to raise the debt ceiling unless coupled with massive cuts. Fact: Almost every Republican in Congress thinks the debt ceiling will be raised ...

The U.S. still has a little time to hit its debt ceiling, but President-elect Donald Trump's eleventh-hour demand that Congress suspend the debt limit as part of ongoing talks to prevent a government ...

President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday rejected Congress' bipartisan plan that would have temporarily funded the government and dodged a serious shutdown that could begin on Friday night. But Trump ...

In 2023, a stalemate between then-President Joe Biden and congressional Republicans over the debt ceiling prompted panic among financial analysts and everyday Americans alike. The deal they struck, ...

Last year, a stalemate between President Joe Biden and congressional Republicans over the debt ceiling prompted panic among financial analysts and everyday Americans alike. The deal they struck, ...

Contemporary journalism is much more episodic than systematic, focusing on one-off events and the colorful personalities involved rather than the long-term trends that brought about the current ...

House Republicans are eyeing a new spending proposal that would tee up votes on three separate measures: to fund the government, appropriate disaster relief and allocate farm assistance, three sources ...