The Federal Reserve is expected to keep interest rates steady for the fifth time since December despite massive pressure from President Trump on Fed Chair Jerome Powell and a soaring economy.

This comes following Trump’s visit to the Federal Reserve Headquarters in Washington, DC, where he clashed with Jerome Powell on Fed renovation costs and, afterward, told reporters that they had a “very good meeting” and he expects Powell to suggest a rate cut.

“[Powell] said, ‘Congratulations, the country is doing really well,’ and I got that to mean that I think he’s going to start recommending lower rates,” Trump told reporters.

WATCH: Trump Says He Expects Jerome Powell to Lower Interest Rates at Next Week’s Meeting After “Very Good Meeting” – “He Said, ‘Congratulations, the Country is Doing Really Well.’”

President Trump also hammered Jerome Powell in a statement this morning, highlighting new GDP numbers and the lack of inflation.

The 12-member Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is meeting today and will release a policy statement at 2 pm ET.

The meeting remains shrouded in secrecy after a lawsuit from investment firm Azoria Capital, which argued that FOMC meetings are illegally closed to the public and sought to bar the FOMC from closing its next meeting, but was shot down by far-left District Court Judge Beryl Howell.

Howell reportedly went so far as to suggest that the lawsuit was meant as "a business strategy to build publicity or generate interest in a new investment fund."

"If the FOMC’s July 29-30, 2025, meeting is allowed to proceed in secret, it will unlawfully deprive Azoria and the American public of timely access to deliberations that may reveal improper political motives behind the FOMC’s decisions," the lawsuit read. It also outlines concerns that the Fed "is maintaining high interest rates to undermine President Donald J. Trump and his economic agenda."

However, attorneys for the Federal Reserve argued that opening their meeting to the public would "irreparably harm the nation's economy" and would "not be in the public interest."

BREAKING: Jerome Powell’s lawyers just told a federal court that our demand to make next week’s Fed meeting public “would not be in the public interest.”

Seriously? How does transparency not serve the American public? What is the Federal Reserve hiding? https://t.co/YRz7fpYQzx pic.twitter.com/XG26xQLgxU

— James Fishback (@j_fishback) July 25, 2025

Azoria CEO James Fishback, in a statement on X on Monday, accused the Fed of attempting to "deny Americans their legal right to know what the Federal Reserve is doing" and declaring that "Azoria looks forward to continuing our case and fighting for transparency and accountability for all Americans."

Per Reuters:

The Federal Reserve is expected to leave interest rates unchanged on Wednesday, six days after President Donald Trump again demanded that the U.S. central bank cut borrowing costs during a rare presidential visit to its headquarters in Washington.

The steep reduction in the benchmark interest rate that Trump wants - he has suggested cutting it from the current 4.25%-4.50% range to as low as 1% - is far out of line with an economy that has hewn largely to a steady-as-it-goes trajectory in the six weeks since the Fed's last meeting. Such dramatic rate cuts would likely boost inflation in the view of many economists and are more in line with what the central bank would do to lift the economy out of recession.

Trump's demands, which have coincided with an unrelenting campaign of attacks by the president and administration officials on Fed Chair Jerome Powell, have made little impression on policymakers. Even rate-cut advocates on the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee favor a more traditional quarter-percentage-point cut at this week's meeting, not the aggressive rate slashing embraced by the White House.

Even the modest rate cut appears to be a minority opinion, limited publicly so far to two Trump appointees to the Fed's Board of Governors, Governor Christopher Waller and Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman. There is speculation that Waller and Bowman could issue dissents if the Fed on Wednesday holds the policy rate steady for the fifth time since December.

Powell is expected to hold a press conference at 2:30 pm ET after the FOMC policy statement is released.

Tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. ET: Chair Powell hosts live #FOMC press conference: https://t.co/fXt6ew8I9A pic.twitter.com/Y9MLePJ8MK

— Federal Reserve (@federalreserve) July 29, 2025

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The evil of Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold in her actions targeting Tina Peters cannot be underestimated.

Guest post by Martel Maxim

Colorado SOS Jena Griswold’s actions against former Mesa County Election Clerk Tina Peters can only be described as unconscionable.  Here’s the definition:

unconscionable – /ŭn-kŏn′shə-nə-bəl/ – adjective – Not restrained by conscience; unscrupulous.  unconscionable behavior.  Beyond prudence or reason; excessive.

Jena Griswold initially moved into the spotlight in the spring of 2021, after the investigations of Tina Peters exposed the malfeasance embedded into our computerized election equipment.  Until that time, Jena had lived an obscure, yet powerful life, rising to stardom by somehow being appointed as President Obama’s Voter Protection Attorney at the young age of 27.  Presently she has amassed power not only as the Colorado Secretary of State, but From 2019 to 2025, Jena Griswold chaired the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State until recently being replaced by Francisco Agular.  Agular has a reputation about as pure as Gavin “Newscum” who has wreaked more havoc on California than imaginable.  On what planet do they find these people who despise America?

Griswold’s disdain for the honest rule of law was exemplified in her effort to take President Trump off the Colorado Ballot in 2024.  While she’s known by the company she keeps, her direct actions reveal a deep hatred of America, as she hides behind the American Flag as a prop.  She’s despised by many, as is evident by reading comments to her Facebook and X Posts, and there are many creative ones that clearly call her out.

On top of it all; like Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell, Chuck Schumer and others; Jena has this uncanny ability to ignore honest feedback constituents give her, as she keeps on powering ahead thinking she has the immunity to get away with anything she wants.  As bizarre as it sounds, she believes she’s next fit for the role of Colorado Attorney General in 2026.  God help us all if that abomination happens.

Jena’s malfeasance is on par with that of the current Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser.  He and his cronies of corruption clearly colluded with Jena and associates to damage President Trump’s campaign and office for as long as possible.  Their true nature and intentions were also made very clear during the persecution and prosecution of Tina Peters since 2021.  Their end goal was to shut her up in a state prison, where she presently resides for 8 3/4 more years so Griswold and company won’t have to.

The good news is that the new DOJ has begun to look at the trail of those who have perpetuated election malfeasance in Colorado, and SOS Griswold is front and center due to her key role and responsibilities with elections there.  Until now, SOS Griswold never had to answer to a higher authority than those in her immediate ecosystem who shared in her notable cover-up actions.

Since the new DOJ under President Trump has swung into action, Colorado’s Legislative and Law Enforcement “leadership” have finally been confronted with the requirement to answer specific questions regarding the management of their elections.  Those questions will only get harder for Griswold and company as more inquiry is made into the malfeasance being exposed from President Obama’s past.  Remember, Jena worked for Obama, and grew a very shady career forward from that point.

To further illustrate the malfeasance of Jena Griswold, she fabricated a fake election password story against Tina (based upon a single expired password shown in a video that was published on the Internet without Tina’s permission) which ultimately landed her in prison approximately 3 years later via a contrived Kangaroo Court trial.  In comparison, Jena authorized the publishing of over 650 active passwords on a hidden tab on her SOS Website, and never received even a slap on the wrist.

In order to codify the malfeasance inherent in the Colorado election ecosystem, SOS Griswold was the force behind the creation of  Colorado SB 22-153.  This piece of legislation was an attempt to plug the holes in their systems as exposed by Tina Peters and Elbert County Clerk Dallas Schroeder.  Both Tina and Dallas made backup copies of their Election Management Servers as required by Colorado law, and were later reprimanded for doing so.  SB 22-153 then made it unlawful to ever do that again.

To hear Tina’s true story, go to https://tinapeters.us/, and be sure to take a look at the 1 hour documentary “Selection Code”.  A the end of that documentary, you’ll know more than 99% of the population about how elections are electronically stolen.  When you Steal a Presidential race you steal a country.  Brazil and Venezuela recently also had their elections stolen with electronic voting machines, and as a result, they installed real live dictators into their top offices.

The story of Tina Peters and how elections are electronically stolen will be highlighted at this outstanding event in Las Vegas on August 9,10.  Tina will also have a special statement of hers read to the audience, as she is not allowed to have her voice or video released from within prison walls.

The evil of Jena Griswold cannot be underestimated, and all indicators are that accountability for her and her associate’s actions is coming in short order.

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President Trump fired the federal prosecutor who was appointed to replace Alina Habba for US Attorney of New Jersey.

Last week it was reported that US Attorney General Pam Bondi promptly removed Alina Habba’s replacement after a group of district court judges voted to oust Habba as interim US Attorney of New Jersey.

A group of federal judges last Tuesday declined to extend Alina Habba’s term as interim US Attorney of New Jersey after Democrat Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries launched a pressure campaign to oust her.

Alina Habba’s term as interim US Attorney was set to expire last Friday at 11:59 pm.

Last Tuesday, after a pressure campaign from Jeffries, district court judges voted to oust Alina Habba as interim US Attorney of New Jersey and replaced her with Desiree Leigh Grace.

Alina Habba last Thursday announced that she is now the Acting US Attorney for New Jersey after district court judges ousted her from her post earlier this week.

Alina Habba’s term as interim US Attorney was set to expire last Friday at 11:59 pm so Trump and Bondi outmaneuvered the activist judges.

Habba resigned as Interim US Attorney and is now Acting US Attorney for New Jersey.

Donald J. Trump is the 47th President.

Pam Bondi is the Attorney General.

And I am now the Acting United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey.

I don’t cower to pressure. I don’t answer to politics.

This is a fight for justice. And I’m all in.

— US Attorney Habba (@USAttyHabba) July 24, 2025

On Saturday, President Trump fired Leigh Grace.

Excerpt from Politico:

President Donald Trump moved to fire the career federal prosecutor New Jersey judges picked to be acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, according to court records filed Tuesday.

The Department of Justice revealed Trump’s decision in an email filed with a federal judge in Pennsylvania, who is preparing to weigh in on an escalating fight between the Trump administration and the federal bench in New Jersey.

Documents filed Tuesday by the Justice Department also show the lengths that the Trump administration went to keep Habba on the job and to be sure that Grace got the message she was fired.

Grace said in a LinkedIn post last week that she was honored to be appointed by the judges. At 12:02 a.m. Saturday, when Grace was to have taken office, Saurabh Sharma, a special assistant to the president, emailed Grace arguing the judges lacked the authority to appoint her and “even if” the judges had the authority, the president was removing Grace from office. The same day, Jay Macklin, the general counsel for the Executive Office for United States Attorneys, sent Grace a letter calling out the LinkedIn post saying, “as you are well aware, you were removed from employment.”

JUST IN: The Trump administration says Leigh Grace should never be U.S. attorney for New Jersey, but just in case, Trump has fired her from the position. pic.twitter.com/NP54H8T1BP

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) July 29, 2025

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Four Cincinnati police officers—Captain Robert Wilson and Lieutenants Patrick Caton, Gerald Hodges, and Andrew Mitchell—filed a federal lawsuit on May 19, 2025, against the city and Police Chief Teresa Theetge, alleging workplace discrimination against white male officers. The lawsuit claims that Chief Theetge and the city favored women and minority officers for preferred assignments, which offer career advancement and benefits.

It further alleges that since Theetge became chief, the department has used race and sex-based criteria for promotions and assignments, disproportionately excluding white male lieutenants. This comes as the woke Police Chief has entered the national spotlight after scolding social media and the media for daring to report on the recent viral video of multiple innocent white people being beaten senseless by multiple black suspects under her watch in Ohio.

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In a decisive and commendable operation, the Dominican Republic’s National Drug Control Directorate (DNCD), with support from the Navy and aerial surveillance, intercepted a speedboat carrying over 1,500 packages of illicit drugs—presumably cocaine or another high-value substance on the black market. This direct hit against transnational organized crime took place off the country’s southern coast, where the vessel attempted to move undetected through Caribbean waters.

The operation, which lasted several hours, involved high-speed pursuit, coordinated aerial tracking, and naval interception tactics that demonstrate the Dominican state’s growing ability to combat drug trafficking with strength and effectiveness.

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