{"id":17701,"date":"2026-01-14T08:22:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T08:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-leaders-throw-cold-water-on-trumps-credit-card-push-2\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T08:22:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T08:22:22","slug":"gop-leaders-throw-cold-water-on-trumps-credit-card-push-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-leaders-throw-cold-water-on-trumps-credit-card-push-2\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP leaders throw cold water on Trump\u2019s credit-card push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Speaker Mike Johnson voiced skepticism Tuesday on President Donald Trump&rsquo;s move to temporarily cap credit card interest rates. &ldquo;I think that would probably deprive an awful lot of people of access to credit around the country,&rdquo; Thune told reporters. &ldquo;Credit cards would probably become debit cards.&rdquo; &ldquo;That&#8217;s not something I&#8217;m out there advocating for &mdash; let&#8217;s put it that way,&rdquo; he added&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/01\/13\/congress\/trump-credit-cards-thune-johnson-00725061\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Speaker Mike Johnson voiced skepticism Tuesday on President Donald Trump&rsquo;s move to temporarily cap credit card interest rates. &ldquo;I think that would probably deprive an awful lot of people of access to credit around the country,&rdquo; Thune told reporters. &ldquo;Credit cards would probably become debit cards.&rdquo; &ldquo;That&#8217;s not something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}