Donald Trump on interest rates
From President Trump Gaggles with Press on Air Force One En Route Chippewa Falls, WI, Jun. 5, 2026 · · The White House
“I'd like to see lower interest rates because each point, think of this, is $600 billion. Okay. So, you know, you said yesterday uh you're interviewing some candidates for permanent director of national intelligence. Who's under consideration for it? Um I have five interviews and we'll have a very good person watching things, Bill Py, but I have five interviews. So, cutting rates are just getting back to you. You save hundreds of millions of dollars when you take one. Hundreds of millions of dollars. two points, you save double hundreds of millions of dollars.”
On , Donald Trump, 45th and 47th U.S. President at US Executive Branch & The Trump Organization, spoke about interest rates during President Trump Gaggles with Press on Air Force One En Route Chippewa Falls, WI, Jun. 5, 2026 on The White House.
About Donald Trump
On June 10, 2026, Trump signed the Secure America Act, a $70 billion bill funding the Department of Homeland Security, ICE, and Border Patrol through the end of his term. During the signing ceremony, he praised Republican congressional leaders and criticized Democratic opponents, accusing them of supporting open borders and other policies he described as harmful. He also claimed that crime in Washington, D.C., had fallen to its lowest level in 58 years and that the city had become one of the safest in the country, attributing the improvement to his administration's actions. On June 11, Trump spoke from the Oval Office and at a White House event, stating that a deal with Iran to prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon could be signed within days. He said the U.S. had been conducting nighttime strikes on Iranian ships, destroying dozens over the previous month, and that oil prices had remained stable as a result. Trump also discussed fishing policy, claiming his executive orders had expanded access to fishing grounds and boosted the economy, and asserted that $18 trillion had been invested in the U.S. during his term. He expressed reluctance to renew the USMCA trade deal with Canada and Mexico, arguing the U.S. did not need their products.