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

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.

Janet Yellen, US treasury secretary, wrote in a letter to congressional leaders Friday that she was advising them “of the extraordinary measures that Treasury will begin using” to avoid breaching the debt limit.