Janet Yellen said hitting the debt ceiling would be a “selfimposed calamity.” As the U.S. nears the debt ceiling, the Treasury Department has begun deploying socalled extraordinary measures.

WSJ’s Jon Hilsenrath explains what those measures are and how they help the country avoid a debt disaster.

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