Republicans have been publicly proclaiming their intention to take the economy hostage for a long while. There may not be time to stop them now.

Democratic lawmakers will return from the holidays with a long list of uncompleted chores and unresolved issues.

Lawmakers agreed to raise the debt limit until 2023, but the fear of a breach is only mounting.

This is how the filibuster carve-out became the hot new thing in making up the rules as you go along.

Congress voted to raise the debt ceiling on Tuesday, but the dysfunction that drives this perennial crisis remains intact.

This is a lesson that Democratic lawmakers learned the hard way during the Obama era, only to forget it.

The perennial fight to raise the debt limit and avoid an economic calamity is once again on lawmakers’ docket, and this time things could get messy.

They really think this is a campaign issue for Republicans? Has any candidate—even one—ever lost an election because he voted to raise the debt limit?

Leave it to Democrats to win a big political fight and then act as though they lost.

The junior senator from New Jersey continues to believe in the power of interpersonal relationships in effecting policy.

We’ll give you the short version (because your time is valuable) and the long version (because you might have nothing better to do).

She loved compromise when it was with Republicans. With Democrats to her left, not so much.

America’s august legislative bodies are a simmering welter of dysfunction, and there is no end in sight.

The party can avert fiscal catastrophe without the GOP’s help—but it’s a complicated nightmare.

The party has been feuding over several big bills. If they don’t pass, you can kiss Congress—and probably the White House—goodbye.

The Senate minority leader is happy to risk economic collapse if it helps the GOP in the midterm elections.

The House’s budget chief on reconciliation, the debt ceiling, and herding cats: “I’m trying not to play Joe Manchin.”

The party will try to fund the government, raise the debt ceiling, and pass an infrastructure deal before the end of the month. No big deal!

When Republicans say they won’t vote to prevent default, Democrats had best believe them.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes—like economic ruin!