President Donald Trump threatened to sue Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell over the central financial institution’s pricey renovation venture.
The U.S. lawyer’s workplace for the District of Columbia has opened a felony investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, specializing in the renovation of the central financial institution’s Washington headquarters and whether or not he was truthful in his congressional testimony concerning the venture, in line with a report by The New York Occasions.
Officers instructed the Occasions that the probe facilities on whether or not Powell precisely characterised the scope and price of the renovation throughout congressional appearances.
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Jerome Powell, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, throughout the Federal Reserve Board open assembly in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, June 25, 2025. (Al Drago/Bloomberg through Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)
The renovation of the Fed’s two predominant workplace buildings in Washington’s Foggy Backside neighborhood is estimated to price $2.5 billion and is being funded by the central financial institution itself, not by taxpayers.
The Fed is self-financing and doesn’t depend on congressional appropriations to cowl its working bills, which embrace worker salaries, services upkeep and the present renovation. Its major earnings comes from curiosity earned on authorities securities and charges charged to monetary establishments.
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The grand atrium of the Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve constructing throughout a media tour of the renovation of the central financial institution’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., on July 24, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)
In June 2025, Powell instructed members of the Senate Banking Committee that “There’s no new marble. There aren’t any particular elevators. They’re previous elevators which have been there. There aren’t any new water options. There aren’t any beehives, and there’s no roof backyard terraces.”
Powell additionally instructed lawmakers that nobody “desires to do a significant renovation of a historic constructing throughout their time period in workplace.”
“We determined to take it on as a result of, truthfully, after I was the executive governor, earlier than I turned chair, I got here to grasp how badly the Eccles Constructing actually wanted a severe renovation,” Powell stated, including that the constructing is “probably not secure” and never waterproof.
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The primary two-story board room of the Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve constructing throughout a media tour of the renovation of the central financial institution’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., on July 24, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)
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President Donald Trump has beforehand threatened authorized motion over the renovations.
The venture is predicted to be accomplished within the fall of 2027, with Washington-based staff anticipated to start working within the constructing in March 2028.
