Trump also said that Powell does a "terrible job" and "cost us a lot of money, but we fight through it."

President Trump’s relentless attacks on the Federal Reserve and its chair, Jerome H. Powell, have put the central bank under intense scrutiny as it grapples with when and by how much to cut interest ...

Undermining that independence for the sake of one man’s political agenda won’t just spark academic debate—it will raise your mortgage, inflate your grocery bill, and destabilize financial markets.