White House fights credit rating downgrade

Published April 18, 2011 4:00am ET



The White House is fighting a rating agency’s assessment that the United States will not be able to reach a bipartisan agreement on raising the debt ceiling and reducing long-term deficit.

“The debt ceiling will be raised,” White House Spokesman Jay Carney said Monday. “We will do that. That will happen.”

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