The United States has hit its debt limit, prompting the Treasury Department to take extraordinary measures to avoid defaulting on its loan payments.
Those measures mean the US government can keep paying its bills until the summer but it risks a financial crisis if lawmakers don't agree to raise the ceiling by then.
Kate Fisher reports from Washington
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