Trump and the Trump administration have increasingly turned their fire on Powell and his leadership of the central bank.

As Donald Trump openly toys with firing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell — despite having appointed him — Republicans and Democrats are sharply divided over whether the president has the authority or wisdom to do so.

In 1997, billionaire Carlyle co-founder David Rubenstein hired a then-relatively unknown member of the George H.W. Bush administration named Jerome Powell. Over the course of eight years, Powell led the private equity firm's industrial group and was a partner.

TheStreet. In a sudden turn of events, President Donald Trump said he was "not planning on doing anything" to get rid of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, reported CNBC. This occurred after he mentioned the idea during a private meeting with congressional Republicans,

The White House accuses the Fed chair of potentially "violating the law" in his renovation of the central bank's Washington, D.C., headquarters.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell is resisting President Donald Trump’s calls for lower interest rates, saying the Fed should not take debt and deficits into account.

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Jerome Powell has been the Federal Reserve Chair since February 2018. Trump nominated Powell in 2017, but now calls for him to resign. Bessent is