Trump calls for credit card interest rate cap
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Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) introduced a bill on Tuesday aiming to cap credit card interest rates at 10%. President Donald Trump backed lowering credit card interest rates during his 2024 campaign, and the bill appears to attempt to ...
For example, the Prime Rate is currently 6.75%. There’s nothing preventing a card issuer from tweaking a new customer offer from Prime Rate + 13% up to Prime Rate + 13.25% if it wishes to mitigate the impact of a Fed rate cut and make more money from interest charges.