“Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Monday revealed further measures to avoid breaching the federal government’s borrowing limit and urged Congress to increase or suspend the ceiling, which went back into effect on Sunday,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
Treasury Moves to Avoid Breaching Debt Limit
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