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Can Trump Fire Powell? He Likely Lacks Case to Remove Fed Chair, Experts Say.

The Trump administration is toying with removing Jerome H. Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve, accusing him of mismanaging a multibillion-dollar update to its Washington headquarters.

© Al Drago for The New York Times

President Trump has seized on Jerome H. Powell’s renovation of the Federal Reserve’s headquarters as a potential reason to fire him, intimating that he engaged in “fraud.”
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