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The Wall Street Publication > Blog > Economy > Treasury Secretary Bessent dismisses Moody’s US credit score downgrade as ‘lagging indicator’
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Treasury Secretary Bessent dismisses Moody’s US credit score downgrade as ‘lagging indicator’

Editorial Board Published May 19, 2025
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White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt stated President Trump disagrees with Moodys downgrading the U.S. governments credit standing.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent downplayed the impression of Moody’s downgrading the U.S. authorities’s credit standing in an interview on Sunday.

Moody’s Rankings on Friday downgraded the U.S. credit standing by one notch, from the very best tier Aaa to Aa1, citing issues over the rising nationwide debt and widening funds deficits. 

“First of all, I think that Moody’s is a lagging indicator, and I think that’s what everyone thinks of credit agencies,” Bessent stated. “Larry Summers and I don’t agree on everything, but he’s said that when they downgraded the U.S. in 2011. So it’s a lagging indicator.” 

MOODY’S DOWNGRADES US CREDIT RATING OVER RISING DEBT

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated the Moody’s downgrade is a lagging indicator of financial and financial situations. (Picture by Andrew Harnik/Getty Photos / Getty Photos)

“And just like Sean Duffy said with our air traffic control system, we didn’t get here in the past 100 days,” he added. 

“It’s the Biden administration and the spending that we have seen over the past four years,” the treasury secretary continued. “We inherited 6.7% deficit to GDP, the highest when we weren’t in a recession, not in a war. And we are determined to bring the spending down and grow the economy.”

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt

White Home Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated latest funding bulletins present confidence within the U.S. economic system. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque / Reuters)

White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt was requested concerning the downgrade throughout a Monday press convention by FOX Enterprise Community’s Edward Lawrence, and she or he pointed to latest funding bulletins as an indication of financial confidence within the U.S., in addition to emphasizing President Donald Trump’s disagreement with the transfer.

“When you look at the world, the world has confidence in the United States of America and our economy. Once again, the president just last week secured trillions of dollars in investments flowing into our economy since the president took office,” Leavitt stated.

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“That is because… people around the world have confidence in the United States of America. And if you also just look at the raw economic data that we’re seeing last week when we were out of town, inflation dropped once again, oil prices are dropping, gas prices are dropping. The president has added nearly half a million jobs to the American economy already,” she stated. “So there’s a lot of optimism in this economy, and the president disagrees with that assessment.”

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Moody’s downgrade cited widening funds deficits pushed by rising spending on entitlement packages and curiosity prices. (SAUL LOEB/AFP through Getty Photos / Getty Photos)

In its announcement on Friday, Moody’s stated the downgrade “reflects the increase over more than a decade in government debt and interest payment ratios to levels that are significantly higher than similarly rated sovereigns.”

“Successive U.S. administrations and Congress have failed to agree on measures to reverse the trend of large annual fiscal deficits and growing interest costs,” the agency defined. “We do not believe that material multi-year reductions in mandatory spending and deficits will result from current fiscal proposals under consideration.”

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Moody’s added that it sees the federal authorities’s fiscal outlook worsening within the years forward, with spending on entitlement packages like Medicare and Social Safety persevering with to rise amid the growing old of the U.S. inhabitants and curiosity funds on the debt rising resulting from greater rates of interest and widening deficits.

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