President gives vote of confidence days after lashing out over central bank’s reluctance to cut interest rates
Donald Trump has said he has no plans to fire the Federal Reserve chairman, Jerome Powell, days after calling the central bank boss a “major loser” whose “termination cannot come fast enough!”
“I have no intention of firing him,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday. “I would like to see him be a little more active in terms of his idea to lower interest rates,” he added.
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