What to know about Trump's ugly feud with the Federal Reserve
President Trump has been critical of cost overruns at the Federal Reserve’s headquarters renovation. But Fed chairman Jerome Powell says a Justice Department probe of the project is really aimed at influencing the central bank’s decisions on interest rates.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has studiously tried to avoid adding gasoline to the fire as the Trump administration has waged a long-running pressure campaign to bend the central bank to the president’s will.
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