"With this letter I notify you of <...> additional emergency measures that the Ministry of Finance began to use today," - TASS quotes a letter from the head of the department, Janet Yellen, sent to the leaders of the Democratic and Republican parties in the US Congress.
Yellen added that she calls on Congress to take action as soon as possible in the situation of the coronavirus pandemic.
Earlier it became known that in the United States on Sunday, August 1, the public debt ceiling began to operate again, which was suspended by Congress in 2019.