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Sun Jan 18, 2026, 02:22 AM Sunday

Trump's Playing Both Sides Of The Credit Card Fight Trump claims he wants to lower credit card interest rates.

His regulators are doing the opposite. A month before Trump renewed his calls last week to take on Americans’ crushing consumer debt by capping credit card interest rates, his administration quietly intervened in a legal battle to do the opposite.

In December, Trump’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which oversee the nation’s financial regulations, filed legal briefs in a case opposing a new Colorado state law that would rein in soaring interest rates on financial products, including credit cards. https://www.levernews.com/trumps-playing-both-sides-of-the-credit-card-fight/

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