This news article covers two separate topics: the deaths at the Bexar County Jail in 2024 and the looming U.S. debt ceiling crisis.
The Bexar County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help in finding Ricaria Pates, 15, who was last seen in northeast Bexar County. The U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said her agency will need to start taking “extraordinary measures,” or special accounting maneuvers intended to prevent the nation from hitting the statutory debt ceiling between January 14 and January 23.
At which point extraordinary measures would be used to prevent the government from breaching the nation's debt ceiling — which has been suspended until Jan. 1, 2025.The department has in the past deployed what are known as “extraordinary measures” or accounting maneuvers to keep the government operating. But once those measures run out the government risks defaulting on its debt unless lawmakers and the president agree to lift the limit on the U.S. government’s ability to borrow. 'I respectfully urge Congress to act to protect the full faith and credit of the United States,' she said.After a protracted debate in the summer of 2023 over how to fund the government, policymakers crafted the Fiscal Responsibility Act, which included suspending the nation's $31.4 trillion borrowing authority until Jan. 1, 2025
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