Can Trump Cap Credit Card Rates?
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
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4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
President Trump says he wants to cap credit card interest rates at 10% for a year by Jan. 20. I joined CBS Mornings to break down if the president has the ability to cap rates and what it would mean for you.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Jill on Money Show. |
| 0:05.2 | It's Wednesday, January 14th. |
| 0:09.0 | You better eat your Wheaties. |
| 0:10.8 | It's like the news cycle is crazy. |
| 0:13.0 | This is the program that takes the mystery out of your financial life. |
| 0:17.1 | But even for us, this is a lot. |
| 0:19.7 | If you've got a financial question, if something's going on |
| 0:22.7 | in your life, we would love to hear from you. Go to our website, Jill onmoney.com, click the |
| 0:28.6 | contact us button. Write us a note. Let us know if you would like to come on the air by checking the |
| 0:33.4 | box. Mark will do everything else. Now, importantly, over the weekend, there was a lot of chatter. |
| 0:40.0 | Okay. So there are two big things that happened over the weekend that you may have heard about. |
| 0:44.8 | And now we're going to talk about it a little bit more in depth. One has to do with the Federal Reserve and the other has to do with the president who basically said he wants to put a cap on interest |
| 0:57.4 | rates on credit card balances and credit cards. Actually, he said, I want to put a cap, a 10% cap |
| 1:04.5 | on credit card interest rates. That was on a social media post that he put on there. Okay. So I thought this was an |
| 1:13.4 | interesting moment to actually talk a little bit about credit card interest rates. And so what, |
| 1:19.7 | what happened was I put together this segment with my fantastic, my other producer. I have the |
| 1:26.0 | best producers, but Samantha, my wonderful producer, |
| 1:29.5 | and I thought we were going to do this whole thing about the Fed, and then we'll do interest |
| 1:33.2 | rates on the other side of it. But what we actually ended up doing was do a full-blown |
| 1:38.0 | segment about credit card interest rates, and we kind of have a little Fed thing at the end. |
| 1:43.7 | So here's what I think makes sense for today. |
| 1:46.4 | Because this is fast moving and because there is a deadline, I just want to put this out into your |
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