Trump Threatens Powell, Keeps Fed Renovation Probe Front and Center
TL;DR
President Trump threatened to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell if he doesn’t step down and refused to halt the Justice Department’s probe into the Fed’s $2.5 billion renovation, a move that tests the central bank’s independence and complicates Powell’s departure timeline and the nomination process for his replacement.
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