The country hopes to achieve the same 15% blanket tariff rate from Trump as Japan got this week, but offering as much in investments as Japan did would be difficult for an economy that’s less than half Japan’s size.

In the first nine months of the 2025 fiscal year, interest costs totaled $921 billion, up 6% from the year before. However, firing Powell and pursuing more aggressive cuts to the federal funds rate would save just $12 billion to $15 billion through 2027, according to a recent Deutsche Bank analysis.

Although tariffs’ impact on consumer prices has been modest thus far, “the day of reckoning is finally upon us, and many [U.S. businesses] are planning price adjustments this summer, likely beginning in July.”