Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., discusses the June CPI report and President Donald Trump calling on Fed Chair Jerome Powell to decrease rates of interest on ‘The Backside Line.’
Requested Tuesday whether or not he thought Jerome Powell’s habits surrounding the renovations of the Federal Reserve constructing was a “fireable offense,” President Donald Trump mentioned he thought it was, calling the debacle “fairly disgraceful.”
The president pointed to Powell’s testimony earlier than the Senate Banking Committee in June.
Throughout his remarks, the Federal Reserve Chairman rejected the notion that current renovations on the Federal Reserve headquarters in Washington, D.C., and two adjoining buildings – which Powell admitted are over price range – included lavish new options like marble, VIP eating rooms, particular elevators, roof terrace gardens, beehives and new water options.
TRUMP SAYS POWELL SHOULD RESIGN IMMEDIATELY FROM FEDERAL RESERVE LEADERSHIP POSITION OVER ECONOMIC MISSTEPS
President Donald Trump and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. (Getty Pictures/Photograph illustration / Getty Pictures)
“They spent $2.5 million constructing this place. I’ve to say this. I feel he is horrible. I feel he is a complete stiff. However the one factor I did not see him is a man that wanted a palace to stay in,” Trump informed reporters Tuesday.
“You speak to the man. It is like speaking to – nothing. It is like speaking to a chair. No persona, no excessive intelligence, no nothing. However the one factor I’d have by no means guessed is that he could be spending $2.5 billion to construct a bit of extension unto the fed no person’s ever seen.”
Trump has been venting his frustrations with Powell to the media over the previous few weeks, upset that he has not lowered rates of interest shortly sufficient, noting he acted aggressively to lift charges beneath his predecessor Joe Biden.
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Development on the Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve constructing in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, July 14, 2025. (Al Drago/Bloomberg through Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)
“That is going to be much more cash than $2.5 billion to broaden. And with all of that to accommodate hundreds of individuals to present him data. And but out of the 71 economists – they usually included me, me and one different particular person acquired it proper, I acquired it proper. I acquired it proper and one different genius acquired it proper and everyone else was unsuitable. Sixty-nine have been unsuitable and two have been proper. I used to be one in every of them. And I haven’t got lots of people. I’ve ours – I’ve Doug, I’ve a number of individuals. He has hundreds of individuals, and he acquired it unsuitable,” Trump mentioned to reporters whereas touring from a man-made intelligence occasion at Carnegie Mellon College.
“No, I feel whenever you spend $2.5 billion on, actually a renovation, I feel it is fairly disgraceful.”
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump at a Home Republicans Convention assembly on the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill on November 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Allison Robbert-Pool/Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)
Throughout his gaggle with reporters, the president additionally spoke about looming commerce offers and tariffs.
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Trump mentioned he expects round 5 or 6 offers with different main international locations to get locked by his August 1 deadline, whereas including that he plans to ship out a letter sooner or later “speaking about many international locations which are a lot smaller,” corresponding to international locations in Africa and the Caribbean, addressing how they are going to be impacted by tariffs.
Trump mentioned it might pertain to round 200 smaller international locations when he was pressed on the matter by reporters.
