Is it possible to become debt-free in one year? Some people have low enough credit card balances that they can become ...

Taylor Tepper covered banking, investing and pretty much everything else in personal finance for more than a decade, with his work appearing in the New York Times, Fortune and MONEY magazine, as ...

Congressional Republicans are moving forward with plans for a rejiggered budget resolution that will set different thresholds ...

The federal government could be unable to pay its bills as soon as August if Congress doesn't act, the Congressional Budget ...

If Republicans fail to get the votes on their own to lift the debt ceiling, with the deadline expected in August or September ...

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

Senate Republicans had previously endorsed a two-track approach, with the second bill focusing just on renewing the 2017 Tax ...

The game-changing initiative comes after the government already wiped $3 billion off Aussies' student loan bills.