Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says her agency will need to start taking “extraordinary measures,” or special accounting ...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Congress that the country could hit the debt ceiling as soon as Jan. 14 in a letter ...

Under that law, the limit on Treasury’s ability to issue debt to cover the nation’s bills returns on Jan. 2. But Yellen explained in her letter that Treasury has some extra leeway until ...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said her department will soon need to take "extraordinary measures" to prevent the US from ...

Photo: U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks during a visit to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) in ...

The Treasury Department on Friday said the government is beginning to run out of money to finance its debt obligations.

Unless Congress acts in the next couple of weeks, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has warned, the government will run into ...

Yellen told Congress her agency will need to start taking "extraordinary measures," or special accounting maneuvers intended ...

FILE - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks during a visit to the Financial ... "Treasury expects to hit the statutory debt ceiling between January 14 and January 23," Yellen wrote in ...

FILE - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks during a visit to the Financial ... intended to prevent the nation from hitting the debt ceiling, as early as January 14, in a letter sent ...