Is the supreme court ready to stand up to Trump over Federal Reserve attack? - short news
Conservative majority appears eager to hand president greater power – with one exception: the US central bank
Donald Trump has tried his usual tactics when it comes to getting the US Federal Reserve to lower interest rates: bully when persuasion doesn’t work, and then fire when bullying doesn’t work.
In an unprecedented assault on the central bank, the president has called the Fed chair, Jerome Powell, “stupid” and threatened to fire him for not cutting interest rates..
source: The Guardian - 24.01.2026