{"id":291778,"date":"2026-02-11T05:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/291778\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T05:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:03:10","slug":"us-president-donald-trump-says-rate-cuts-would-solve-us-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/291778\/","title":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump says rate cuts would solve US debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a pre-taped interview with Fox Business, US President Donald Trump made a variety of statements, including his belief that a two-percentage-point drop in interest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/rates-charts\/rates\" data-fxs-autoanchor=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rates<\/a> would wipe out the US national deficit.<\/p>\n<p>Key Trump quotes<\/p>\n<p>I think 2026 is going to be great.<br \/>Stock market gains are good.<br \/>We&#8217;ve had a very good run. I want to keep it going.<br \/>The stock market should go up on good news.<br \/>I think Warsh agrees with what I&#8217;m saying. He will be a real influencer.<br \/>The US should have the lowest interest rates in the world.<br \/>We should be 2 interest rate points lower right now.<br \/>Interest rates should be lower.<br \/>Every point is $600 billion.<br \/>If we went down two points, we don&#8217;t have a deficit anymore&#8230; and that&#8217;s without cutting.<br \/>Employment numbers remain good after government job cuts.<br \/>Iran wants to make a deal. It would be foolish if they didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a pre-taped interview with Fox Business, US President Donald Trump made a variety of statements, including his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-291778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}