Moody’s Ratings Service downgraded the United States’s credit rating from the triple-A category to double-A.

The federal government’s credit rating dropped from Aaa to Aa1 due to an “increase over more than a decade in government debt and interest payment ratios to levels that are significantly higher than similarly rated sovereigns,” according to the rating service.

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