In the United States, the debt ceiling or debt limit is a legislative limit on the amount of national debt that can be incurred by the U.S. Treasury,...

On January 19, 2023, the United States hit its debt ceiling, leading to a debt-ceiling crisis, part of an ongoing political debate within Congress about...

the United States debt ceiling deals with movements in the United States debt ceiling since it was created in 1917. Management of the United States public...

analogy of an individual "paying their bills." If the United States breached its debt ceiling and were unable to resort to other "extraordinary measures"...

In January 2013, the United States reached the, at the time, debt ceiling of $16.394 trillion that had been enacted following a crisis in 2011. President...

The national debt of the United States is the total national debt owed by the federal government of the United States to Treasury security holders. The...

sequestration was only delayed and the debt ceiling was not changed, thus triggering the United States debt-ceiling crisis of 2013. The term fiscal cliff...

Debt ceiling crisis may refer to one of these events in the United States debt ceiling history: 1995 United States debt-ceiling crisis, part of the 1995–1996...

21 days, respectively. Republicans also threatened not to raise the debt ceiling. The first shutdown occurred after Clinton vetoed the spending bill the...

Since the United States Department of the Treasury has no authority to issue or incur debt beyond the debt ceiling set by the United States Congress,...

that emerged during the United States debt-ceiling crisis of 2011 as a proposed way to bypass any necessity for the United States Congress to raise the...

and debt-ceiling negotiations intended to decrease federal spending. Notable events included the 2011 United States debt-ceiling crisis, 2013 United States...

The history of the United States public debt began with federal government debt incurred during the American Revolutionary War by the first U.S treasurer...

Reduction United States debt-ceiling crisis of 2011 United States federal government credit-rating downgrade of 2011 United States debt-ceiling crisis of...

downgrade to AA+ occurred four days after the 112th United States Congress voted to raise the debt ceiling of the federal government by means of the Budget...

government suspends debt repayments A debt restructuring plan, where the government agrees with other countries, or unilaterally reduces its debt repayments Requiring...

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assassin. August 2 – The United States Senate passes legislation to raise the debt ceiling in order to avert the 2011 US debt ceiling crisis and President...

utilized as an extraordinary measure in 2015 and also in the 2023 United States debt-ceiling crisis by Janet Yellen, the Secretary of the U. S. Treasury to...

debt crisis may refer to: 1995–1996 United States federal government shutdowns 2011 United States debt-ceiling crisis 2013 United States debt-ceiling...

certificates were issued by the United States Treasury as a form of representative money from 1865 to 1933. While the United States observed a gold standard...

he worked on getting Congress to raise the United States debt ceiling during the United States debt-ceiling crisis of 2011. Powell presented the implications...

who voted against the proposed Limit, Save, Grow Act, which raised the debt ceiling while at the same time providing for spending cuts, claiming that the...

billion). Several countries have debt limitation laws in place. Only Denmark and the United States have a debt ceiling that is set at an absolute amount...

is a law used to resolve both the United States federal government shutdown of 2013 and the United States debt-ceiling crisis of 2013. After the Republican-led...

the United States debt ceiling. This was supported primarily by Republicans and opposed by Democrats. In the final vote to lift the debt ceiling, until...

The Temporary Debt Limit Extension Act (S. 540) is a bill that would suspend the United States debt ceiling until March 15, 2015. There would be no statutory...

U.S. credit rating has been downgraded by S&P was during the United States debt-ceiling crisis of 2011. Some economists believed that an extended shutdown...

the sovereign default that could have resulted from the 2011 United States debt-ceiling crisis. The objective of the committee was to develop a deficit...

in 2011 (United States debt-ceiling crisis of 2011) Stock disaster in 2015, 2016 (2015–16 Chinese stock market turbulence) and (2016 United Kingdom European...