US begins ‘extraordinary measures’ to avert debt default
By DW
20 January 2023 |
2:24 pm
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen wrote to Congress saying that the US Treasury had started its "debt issuance suspension period" amid a standoff in Congress over increasing the country's debt ceiling.
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