Trump opens door to Liz Warren on credit card rates as GOP weighs affordability fight
President Donald Trump has been making inroads with progressive Democrats to discuss affordability, courting an unlikely ally along the way in his pursuit of capping credit card interest rates. Trump...
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President Donald Trump has been making inroads with progressive Democrats to discuss affordability, courting an unlikely ally along the way in his pursuit of capping credit card interest rates. Trump and Sen. Elizabeth Warren , D-Mass., appeared to have briefly warmed their chilly relationship to discuss affordability issues in the country and have found a middle ground in the president’s desire to cap credit card interest rates at 10% for one year. Warren told Fox News Digital that Trump picked up the phone and called her on Monday shortly after she gave a fiery speech centered on affordability, where she slammed the president’s efforts on the matter. During the call, the two agreed on the credit card issue, one that she's backed for years, she said. "I supported it for years," Warren said, "and when he first floated the idea over a year ago, I said, ‘I'm all in,’ and so far, Trump hasn't done anything." WHITE HOUSE ‘LASER FOCUSED’ ON AFFORDABILITY AS TRUMP SOFTENS TARIFF STRATEGY When asked about Trump's call with Warren and other recent moves to work with left-wing politicians on the economy , the White House told Fox Digital that Trump is smashing the district's "obsession with consensus orthodoxy." "President Trump was given a resounding mandate by the American people to smash Washington, D.C.’s obsession with consensus orthodoxy that has let Americans down," White House spokesman Kush Desai said. "The Trump administration is turning the page on Joe Biden’s economic disaster by implementing traditional free market policies that do work — like deregulation and tax cuts — while rectifying the America Last policies that have Americans behind." A White House official described the president's call with Warren as "productive" and focusing on credit card interest rates and affordability. THE ECONOMIC POLICIES SHAPING TRUMP’S RETURN TO THE WHITE HOUSE But getting Senate Republicans on board is another matter, given their disdain for any legislation remotely related t…