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Matt Williams, Senior Breaking News and International Editor

Yellen puts Congress on notice over impending debt default date: 5 essential reads on what's at stake

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen doesn't want to look back in anger over a debt deadline missed. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images

Lawmakers have been given notice of a new deadline if they are to avoid a damaging default on U.S. debt: June 1, 2023.

If Congress fails to raise the nation’s borrowing limit by that date, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned, then the federal government risks being “unable to continue to satisfy all of the government’s obligations.”

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