In one of her last acts as Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen says her agency will start taking “extraordinary measures,” or special accounting maneuvers intended to prevent the nation from hitting the debt ceiling,

The day after President Donald Trump takes office, the U.S. Treasury said it will employ "extraordinary measures" to avoid hitting the debt limit. In a letter, outgoing Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said extraordinary measures would begin Jan.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that the government will reach its statutory borrowing limit on Tuesday and begin employing "extraordinary measures" to keep from breaching the cap and risking a potential catastrophic default.