President Trump backs Durbin's bill to lower credit card swipe fees
Trump endorsed the bill and urged people to support it, while also proposing a temporary cap on credit card interest rates.
SOURCE CHECK
TAP FOR WHYNBC Chicago is an established local news outlet with a recognizable newsroom and an attributed byline. The article identifies sources and distinguishes their claims, though it relies in part on statements from interested parties.
- Source type — Established local television news outlet with a regional reporting operation.
- Transparency — The story attributes figures and arguments to named lawmakers, business representatives, and industry sources.
- Author attribution — A named reporter is credited.
- Editorial standards — The outlet has a professional newsroom presence, although this article provides limited detail about its reporting process.
The article explains the proposal, attributes estimates and arguments to their sources, and includes both a restaurant perspective and industry objections. It offers useful policy details but limited independent verification and context for the competing claims.
HOW WE SCORE ↗The article includes supporters’ concerns about costs and opponents’ warnings about security and rewards, while giving several paragraphs to the impact on restaurants. It does not provide a direct response from the bill’s opponents beyond their stated concerns.
- Counterarguments presented — Banking and credit union groups’ objections are included.
- Source diversity — Sources include lawmakers, restaurant representatives, and a credit union industry representative.
- Omitted context — The article gives limited detail on the evidence behind the competing claims about security, rewards, and economic effects.
- Loaded language — Most charged wording appears in attributed quotations rather than the reporter’s narration.
The article reports the bill’s proposed effects and presents both supporters’ cost concerns and industry objections without adopting strongly partisan language.
- Source selection — Includes proponents and restaurant representatives as well as banking and credit union objections.
- Language tone — Mostly descriptive wording, with evaluative phrases presented as direct quotations.
- Framing — Frames the proposal around swipe fees and competing claims about consumer and business effects.
President Donald Trump endorsed a bipartisan bill from Sens. Dick Durbin and Roger Marshall that would require large banks to support multiple card networks, a change intended to lower swipe fees. Banking and credit union groups warn it could reduce security and credit card rewards.
Trump backed the Credit Card Competition Act, which Durbin and Marshall reintroduced. The senators say families pay nearly $1,200 a year in swipe fees. The proposal would require banks with more than $100 billion in assets to enable at least two unaffiliated card networks; Visa and Mastercard control about 85% of the credit card market, according to a news release from the senators’ office. Banking and credit union groups warn the proposal could make transactions less secure and reduce rewards programs.
A Chicago restaurant owner said his business spent more than $200,000 on swipe fees last year, and restaurant association president Sam Toia said restaurants must choose whether to absorb the costs or pass them on to customers. Illinois’s Interchange Fee Prohibition Act, signed by Gov. JB Pritzker in 2024, has been delayed amid a legal challenge and is scheduled to take effect in July 2026. Trump also wants to cap credit card interest rates at 10% for a year; bank executives have warned that proposal could hurt the economy.
Community verdict
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SWIPE →President who endorsed the Credit Card Competition Act
Senator and co-sponsor of the Credit Card Competition Act
Marshall's version of this story ↗
Senator and co-sponsor of the Credit Card Competition Act
Durbin's version of this story ↗Part of a bigger story
3 OUTLETSOutlets agree Trump proposed a temporary 10% cap on credit-card interest and that House Speaker Mike Johnson questioned it, warning it could limit access to credit. Center outlets cover possible effects of credit-card policy, with one focusing on Johnson’s concerns about the cap and another on Trump’s endorsement of a separate swipe-fee bill and reactions to it. Right-leaning outlets stress risks to credit access and skepticism about the cap’s congressional prospects.
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