{"id":18321,"date":"2026-01-28T14:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T14:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/fed-on-track-to-defy-trump-keep-rates-steady-despite-criminal-probe\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T14:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T14:22:07","slug":"fed-on-track-to-defy-trump-keep-rates-steady-despite-criminal-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/fed-on-track-to-defy-trump-keep-rates-steady-despite-criminal-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Fed on track to defy Trump, keep rates steady despite criminal probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Reserve is on track to keep interest rates steady Wednesday and defy the Trump administration&#8217;s controversial efforts to reshape the independent central bank. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is widely expected to leave its baseline borrowing rate unchanged, a move likely to infuriate President Trump as he faces increasing backlash from the&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/business\/5708978-fed-interest-rates-trump-powell\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Reserve is on track to keep interest rates steady Wednesday and defy the Trump administration&#8217;s controversial efforts to reshape the independent central bank. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is widely expected to leave its baseline borrowing rate unchanged, a move likely to infuriate President Trump as he faces increasing backlash from the&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18321","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=18321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}