The nation will hit its roughly $36 trillion debt limit on Tuesday, when the Treasury Department will start taking extraordinary measures to allow the government to pay its ...

Outgoing Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said her department will start taking special accounting maneuvers as of Jan. 21 to ...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Friday the nation will hit its debt ceiling the day after President Trump is inaugurated and that the agency will begin “extraordinary measures” to stave off ...

In one of her last acts as Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen says her agency will start taking “extraordinary measures,” or ...

It is not clear how long Congress will have to secure a deal on funding or raising the debt ceiling again once the measures ...

On Sunday, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers withdrew his name from consideration to be the next Federal Reserve chairman. Current Chairman Ben Bernanke steps down in January 2014, and ...

Outgoing Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said her department will start taking special accounting maneuvers as of Jan. 21 to ...

Few can currently imagine that Republicans would actually allow a default to occur ... But the clock is nevertheless now ticking, with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen recently outlining the steps ...

Outgoing Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has issued a stark warning ... threatening electoral primary challengers against Republicans who voted to fund the government while excluding debt limit.

Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen informed Congress on Friday that ... financial obligations — at a fractious political moment. Republicans are set to take control of Washington next month ...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned congressional leaders Friday ... eliminating the limit — a move traditionally opposed by Republicans, who have cited the growing debt in negotiations ...