{"id":405927,"date":"2026-05-01T01:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T01:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/405927\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T01:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T01:28:07","slug":"fitch-warns-us-debt-rating-faces-pressure-from-rising-deficit-fiscal-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/405927\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitch Warns US Debt Rating Faces Pressure From Rising Deficit, Fiscal Risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Fitch Ratings is warning the US\u2019s credit grade faces the challenges of a widening deficit that leaves its debt burden \u201cfar above\u201d other nations that share its AA score.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Deterioration is likely in the US fiscal position this year due to tax cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, despite offsets from tariff revenue, a Fitch team including Richard Francis and Shelly Shetty wrote in a Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fitchratings.com\/research\/sovereigns\/widening-us-deficit-climbing-debt-are-key-sovereign-rating-challenge-30-04-2026\" title=\"Fitch note\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">report<\/a>. That emphasizes the importance of November\u2019s Congressional mid-term elections, they wrote. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fitch Ratings is warning the US\u2019s credit grade faces the challenges of a widening deficit that leaves its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[642,138,8310,37418,5399,1951,219,7797,12410,266,111,139,69,7254,33522,15580],"class_list":["post-405927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-august","tag-business","tag-congress","tag-credit-rating","tag-debt","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-elections","tag-gdp","tag-government","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-policy","tag-tax-cuts","tag-u-s-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}