Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Congress that the U.S. will reach its statutory debt limit next Thursday. She pled with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to take the necessary steps to either suspend or increase the debt limit. In a letter to Congress, Yellen said the Treasury Department will take “extraordinary measures” to fulfill the government’s fiscal responsibilities. She stated that programs like “Social Security and Medicare benefits, military salaries, interest on the national debt, tax refunds, and other payments,” all are jeopardized if Congress doesn’t increase the debt limit. “F…