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Trump’s Plan to Pack the Fed With Loyalists

Overhauling the central bank’s Board of Governors would grant the president greater sway over the Federal Reserve, an institution that is supposed to be independent from the White House.

© Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times

President Trump has spent months demanding that Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, lower interest rates. The two toured the Fed’s renovation site in July after the president accused Mr. Powell of mismanaging the project.
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