Failing to lift America’s borrowing limit would be a ‘disastrous’ event that would trigger ‘financial crisis and calamity,’ Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, in joint Senate testimony with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, told lawmakers.

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