“Fitch places under surveillance AAA rating of the United States amidst potential default crisis”

A week before a possible default in the United States, while discussions between the Democratic power and the Republican opposition flounder, the rating agency Fitch has placed “under surveillance” the AAA rating of the country of the uncle Sat.

“Failure to reach an agreement … would be a negative sign for governance in general and the willingness of the United States to meet its obligations on time,” Fitch said in a statement released Wednesday.

If this agency deplored the “political tensions which hinder” the discussions, it nevertheless affirmed “to expect a resolution in time”. Despite intense negotiations, the two main American parties have not yet reached a budget compromise.

It is “a crisis fabricated from scratch”, said Wednesday, the spokeswoman for the White House, Karine Jean-Pierre, castigating the refusal of the Republican clan in Congress to vote in favor of raising the ceiling. of the debt, an essential operation to avoid a bankruptcy of the federal State.

Karine Jean-Pierre attacked the right wing of the Republican Party, noting that “they are now saying out loud what they think quietly, talking about holding the financial credibility of the United States hostage”, allusion made to recent statements by an elected member of the radical right in the House of Representatives.