{"id":18361,"date":"2026-01-29T14:21:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T14:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/fed-holds-firm\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T14:21:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T14:21:04","slug":"fed-holds-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/fed-holds-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"Fed holds firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Blue Light News&#8217;s Business &amp; Economy newsletter {beacon} Business &amp; Economy Business &amp; Economy &#8202; The Big Story  Fed keeps rates unchanged The Federal Reserve declined to cut interest rates Wednesday, holding steady amid President Trump&rsquo;s battle to exert more influence over the independent central bank&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/newsletters\/business-economy\/5711969-fed-holds-firm\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Blue Light News&#8217;s Business &amp; Economy newsletter {beacon} Business &amp; Economy Business &amp; Economy &#8202; The Big Story Fed keeps rates unchanged The Federal Reserve declined to cut interest rates Wednesday, holding steady amid President Trump&rsquo;s battle to exert more influence over the independent central bank&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18361","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\/18361","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=18361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}