{"id":2654547,"date":"2026-09-04T11:00:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-pressures-fed-for-rate-cut-by-threatening-to-cut-off-trade-partners-altogether\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T11:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T15:01:10","slug":"trump-pressures-fed-for-rate-cut-by-threatening-to-cut-off-trade-partners-altogether","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-pressures-fed-for-rate-cut-by-threatening-to-cut-off-trade-partners-altogether\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump pressures Fed for rate cut by threatening to cut off trade partners altogether"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-pressures-fed-for-rate-cut-by-threatening-to-cut-off-trade-partners-altogether%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2654547&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Donald Trump has threatened to cut off trade with countries holding U.S. trade deficits if the Federal Reserve dose not lower interest rates, intensifying pressure on the central bank. This statement followed strong job growth in August, surpassing expectations, which, combined with persistent inflation, led to predictions of interest rate hikes. Trump has called for lower rates, emphasizing that a stronger U.S. credit status justifies reduced interest rates and threatened to cease trade with deficit nations, citing a Supreme Court ruling that affirms the president&#8217;s authority over trade actions.Despite appointing Kevin Warsh to lead the Fed, expectations of rate cuts have yet to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >materialize amid energy shocks<\/a> from Iran tensions. Trump&#8217;s intervention marks a departure from the typical independence of the Fed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/benchmark-inflation-measure-hits-highest-level-in-30-years\/\" title=\"Benchmark Inflation Measure Hits Highest Level In 30 Years\">monetary policy decisions<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"4\">Donald Trump<\/a> has threatened to cut off <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/trade\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"347\">trade<\/a> to countries with which the U.S. has a trade deficit if the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/federal-reserve\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"726\">Federal Reserve<\/a> doesn\u2019t lower <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/interest-rates\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"727\">interest rates<\/a>, a major escalation of his pressure campaign on the central bank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump made the announcement on Friday after the release of employment numbers that showed that the economy <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/finance-and-economy\/4712825\/economy-beat-expectations-august-iran-crunch\/\">added far more jobs<\/a> than anticipated last month. The stronger jobs numbers, coupled with still-too-high inflation, increased expectations that the Fed would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/morgan-stanley-threat-of-high-inflation-is-real\/\" title=\"Morgan Stanley: Threat of high inflation is real\">raise interest rates<\/a> at its next meeting. In a post to Truth Social, the president called for the opposite.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4713790\/trump-pressures-fed-rate-cut-threatening-cut-trade-partners\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Trump pressures Fed for rate cut by threatening to cut off trade partners altogether<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/finance-and-economy\/4712825\/economy-beat-expectations-august-iran-crunch\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Economy smashed expectations with 162,000 jobs in August, despite Iran energy crunch<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/finance-and-economy\/4712747\/republicans-reckon-possibility-bipartisan-fiscal-commission-close-deficits\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Republicans reckon with possibility of bipartisan fiscal commission to close deficits<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/finance-and-economy\/4712747\/republicans-reckon-possibility-bipartisan-fiscal-commission-close-deficits\/\"><strong>REPUBLICANS RECON WITH POSSIBILITY OF BIPARTISAN FISCAL COMMISSION TO CLOSE DEFICITS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLower the interest rates because the U.S.A. is a much stronger credit than it was just a short time ago!\u201d Trump wrote. \u201cA STRONG COUNTRY MEANS A LOWER INTEREST RATE \u2013 IT\u2019S A BETTER CREDIT\u2026Very simple! We should have the LOWEST RATE of any country in the World, like \u2018the old days.\u2019 Without the United States agreeing to allow them their big surpluses, and we could stop that immediately, they would no longer be considered financially ELITE!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLOWER THE RATE OR I\u2019LL STOP TRADING WITH COUNTRIES WITH WHICH WE HAVE A DEFICIT, which the U.S. Supreme Court, in its ridiculous and very costly Tariff decision, strongly acknowledged \u201cthe President\u201d has an absolute right to do. IT\u2019S BETTER THAN TARIFFS! The Fed Board, with its great new leader, must get smart \u2013 BE PATRIOTS for a change,\u201d the president added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump appears to be referencing the Supreme Court\u2019s 6-3 ruling in <em>Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump<\/em> from February.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In that, the high court ruled that the president can\u2019t use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose blanket tariffs, but left the door open to him using other trade powers under IEEPA to impose a total trade embargo under a declared national emergency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump appointed Kevin Warsh to replace Jerome Powell at the head of the central bank, in part, with the expectation that Warsh was more likely to lower rates. That has not happened so far, as the energy price shock from the Iran war has made taming inflation more challenging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Up until Friday, Trump had said that, while he favored rate cuts, he supported Warsh acting according to his own judgment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/economy\/4712371\/what-august-jobs-report-economy-trump\/\"><strong>WHAT THE AUGUST JOBS REPORT SAYS ABOUT THE ECONOMY AND TRUMP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Warsh and the Fed have held rates steady the past few meetings, although Warsh <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/finance-and-economy\/4704071\/kevin-warsh-inflation-federal-reserve-main-focus\/\">struck a hawkish tone<\/a> during his annual address last month, leading many to think there might be an interest rate hike in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump\u2019s new message complicates that picture and breaks with the norm in recent decades that the White House allows the Fed to conduct monetary policy independently.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-25\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-4\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump threatens trade cuts if Fed doesn&#8217;t lower rates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3360,"featured_media":2654548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/AP26245857325580-1.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[7498,41290,42205,3634],"class_list":["post-2654547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-fed","tag-rate-cut","tag-trade-policy","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/AP26245857325580-1.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2654547"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2654551,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654547\/revisions\/2654551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2654548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2654547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2654547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2654547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}