U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen activated another extraordinary cash management measure to avoid breaching the federal debt limit, suspending daily reinvestments in a large government retirement fund that holds Treasury debt. | Reuters
. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen activated another extraordinary cash management measure on Tlimit, suspending daily reinvestments in a large government retirement fund that holds TreasuryIn a letter notifying Congress of the move to access the Government Securities Investment Fund , Yellen did not alter a projected early June deadline for when the Treasury may no longer be able to pay the nation’s bills without an increase in the $31.4 trillion statutory borrowing limit.
“The statute governing G Fund investments expressly authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to suspend investment of the G Fund to avoid breaching the statutorylimit,” Yellen wrote in the letter to House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a Republican, and other congressional leaders.
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