Moody’s strips U.S. government of top credit rating, citing Washington’s failure to rein in debt

May 16, 2025

Moody’s lowered the rating from a gold-standard Aaa to Aa1 but said the United States “retains exceptional credit strengths such as the size, resilience and dynamism of its economy and the role of the U.S. dollar as global reserve currency.’'

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