President Trump is trying to make Jerome Powell’s “life as much as possible” Pressure On federal reserve chair Low interest rates Or leave the Central Bank, a reporter who has closely followed Trump this week.
“I suspect, he will fire Powell – he can be; Obviously, anything possible,” New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman Said on CNN’s “source” Late Thursday night. “But in the meantime, he is going to make his life as pathetic as much as possible, or at least as sad as the President believes it can behave in this way.”
Tusrap Told reporters on Friday In the morning that he does not plan to firing Powell, but criticized him again for not adjusting the interest rates.
“I think he is doing a terrible thing,” Trump said before leaving the White House to visit Texas. “I think we should lower 3 points, interest rates. She is spending a lot of money to our country.”
“We should be number one, and we are not and it is due to Geom Powell,” said Trump.
Habermann said on CNN that he had heard the name floating as a possible replacement for Pavel.
“Always worth reminding people … The President appointed J Powell,” he said. “It was not a person who was imposed on him. It was an earlier appointment.”
Supreme court Ruled in May The Federal Reserve Chair is protected from removing without any reason.
The top officials of the White House have increased the attacks on Powell, focusing on the renewal of the Central Bank’s $ 2.5 billion office and questioned their management.
Trump’s Chief Budget Advisor Ras Publicly shared A letter Thursday He tells Powell that 90 -year -old Marinner S. The ongoing renewal of Excel building changes, which acts as a Federal Reserve System Headquarters in Washington, DC, can violate the law.
“Fed has been misbehaved,” he told reporters at the White House on Friday, “Building Renovation called” horrific from the cost of cost “.
Powell Told senators In June that in June 2021, the National Capital Planning Commission approved has been converted into certain elements or wrongly replaced in recent reports.
“There is no VIP dining room; there is no new marble – we took the old marble down, and we are putting it back,” Powell testified, admitting that some segments of the new marble were required to change only broken pieces.
“There are no new water features; there are no bees, and no roof roof gardens,” Powell continued.
On Friday, Watts compared the renovation work of Versay of France to Versay’s extraordinary palace.
“It would probably qualify as one of the eighth wonders of the ancient world if you were able to return to that far,” he told reporters.
