Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, in a letter on Friday to congressional leaders, said the Treasury would begin using extraordinary measures Jan. 21.

Federal government nears debt-ceiling limit, Yellen warns The Treasury Department on Friday said the government is beginning to run out of money to finance its debt obligations.

Yellen told Congress her agency will need to start taking "extraordinary measures," or special accounting maneuvers intended to prevent the nation from hitting the debt ceiling, as early as Jan. 14.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Friday the nation will hit its debt ceiling the day after President Trump is inaugurated and that the agency will begin “extraordinary measures” to stave ...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen wrote a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson Friday. In it, she warned that the US would breach its debt limit as soon as January 14 unless Congress acted.

Janet L. Yellen, the Treasury secretary, has previously called the debt limit “destructive” and said it should be eliminated. Kenny Holston/The New York Times ...

The U.S. government has less than three weeks to raise its debt limit before it will need to take “extraordinary measures” to sustain federal operations, Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen ...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Friday the nation will hit its debt ceiling the day after President Trump is inaugurated and that the agency will begin “extraordinary measures” to stave ...