WASHINGTON, D. C.: US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Sunday (Monday in Manila) warned that US economic recovery would reverse into recession if Congress fails to swiftly raise the federal debt limit.

"Congress has raised or suspended the country's debt ceiling about 80 times since 1960. Now it must do so again," Yellen said in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.

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