{"id":392456,"date":"2025-05-18T23:44:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T18:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/moodys-downgrades-us-debt-to-aa1-citing-rising-interest-costs-and-unsustainable-debt-growth-crypto-news\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T00:02:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T18:32:59","slug":"moodys-downgrades-us-debt-to-aa1-citing-rising-interest-costs-and-unsustainable-debt-growth-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/moodys-downgrades-us-debt-to-aa1-citing-rising-interest-costs-and-unsustainable-debt-growth-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Moody&#8217;s downgrades US debt to AA1, citing rising interest costs and unsustainable debt growth &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"fxs_article_content\">\n<p><span>Moody&#8217;s Ratings agency downgraded the US&#8217;s sovereign debt credit rating after the market close on Friday. According to Moody&#8217;s, the US is facing rising debt funding costs that far exceed those of similar government debt loads. Moody&#8217;s specifically highlighted US interest obligations &#8220;that are significantly higher than similarly rated sovereigns&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Moody&#8217;s has lost faith that the US government will be able to make and execute multi-year reduction plans for reducing its deficits and debt and stating, &#8220;Successive US administrations and Congress have failed to agree on measures to reverse the trend of large annual fiscal deficits and growing interest costs.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"fxs_headline_from_medium_to_large\"><span>Key highlights<\/span><\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>United States ratings cut to Aa1 from AAA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The US&#8217; long-term local and foreign-currency country ceilings remain at AAA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>We do not expect that the US&#8217; long-term growth will be significantly affected by tariffs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>We recognize the US&#8217; significant economic &#038; financial strengths, and believe these no longer fully counterbalance decline in fiscal metrics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>We anticipate US&#8217; Federal debt burden will rise to about 134% of GDP by 2035, compared to 98% in 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moody&#8217;s Ratings agency downgraded the US&#8217;s sovereign debt credit rating after the market close on Friday. According to Moody&#8217;s, the US is facing rising debt funding costs that far exceed those of similar government debt loads. Moody&#8217;s specifically highlighted US interest obligations &#8220;that are significantly higher than similarly rated sovereigns&#8221;. Moody&#8217;s has lost faith that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[201,248,251,246,1282,257,255,250,252,128,247,253,2071,249,334,256,254],"class_list":["post-392456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-others","tag-blockchain","tag-bsc","tag-chainlink","tag-coin","tag-credit","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-gta","tag-looks-rare","tag-oracle","tag-politics","tag-polygon","tag-quickswap","tag-ratingagencies","tag-safe-moon","tag-unitedstates","tag-wallet","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392464,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392456\/revisions\/392464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}