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 debt ceiling, as early as January 14,

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said her department is likely to begin taking special accounting maneuvers sometime in mid-January to avoid breaching the US debt limit, and urged lawmakers to take action defending the “full faith and credit” of the US.

The U.S. Treasury Department will likely resort to accounting maneuvers sometime in mid-January to stay under the U.S. debt limit, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen wrote in a letter on Friday to House Speaker Mike Johnson and other congressional leaders.