Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen initiates "extraordinary measures" to avoid hitting the debt ceiling before leaving office, ...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's parting gift to Pres.-elect Donald Trump announced debt limit reached his first full day back in office.

In one of her last acts as Treasury secretary, Janet Yellen said her agency will start taking “extraordinary measures,” or special accounting maneuvers intended to prevent the nation from ...

Janet Yellen says her agency will start taking “extraordinary measures,” or special accounting maneuvers intended to prevent the nation from hitting the debt ceiling, on January 21 ...

Congress will need to address the debt ceiling issue at some point this year to prevent a potential economic crisis. WASHINGTON - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that the government ...

Janet Yellen, the U.S. Treasury Secretary, on Friday cautioned that the government will reach its borrowing limit on Tuesday, necessitating the use of "extraordinary measures" to prevent a potential ...

It is not clear how long Congress will have to secure a deal on funding or raising the debt ceiling again once the measures are taken, but in the past it has helped stall the default for several month ...