Originally Posted by N2264J

No, I didn't get it backwards and the downgrade occurring four days after the debt ceiling deal is irrelevant.

The downgrade happened due to the political brinksmanship of Republicans
threatening for months to hold the full faith and credit of the United States
government hostage in trying to blackmail their pet spending cuts.

Had you read the whole Wikipedia article you lifted your quote from, you may have gleaned that but reading and understanding your sources apparently isn't your
strong suit so we get more jungle-damage-control-insult-word-salad.

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