10 entries in the ledger
The White House announced Oct. 9, 2026, that Trump formed a three-member committee, including his assistant for economic policy, the EEOC chair and the Office of Government Ethics director, to review whether he has cause...
Federal Reserve Bank of New York economists found, in an Oct. 6, 2026, research post, that Trump's tariffs added 2.9 percentage points to consumer goods price inflation by February 2026, and that goods prices would...
President Trump said on September 30, 2026, that Federal Reserve Board member Jerome Powell should be "forced" to resign or face a lawsuit from the federal government, hours after the Fed's inspector general released a...
Sens. Chris Van Hollen, Jack Reed, Angela Alsobrooks and Elizabeth Warren, all on the Senate Banking Committee, wrote to Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh on Aug. 19 asking him to disclose his communications with...
The White House has restarted its effort to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. Dan Scavino, who heads the Office of Presidential Personnel, wrote to Cook this week that there is sufficient reason to believe she...
On April 24, 2026, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro announced on X that she had directed her office to close its criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, writing, "I have...
Stephen Miran resigned as chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers in early February 2026 while remaining a governor of the Federal Reserve Board. Miran had joined the Fed in September 2025 to fill an...
On August 25, 2025, President Trump announced he was removing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, citing what he called "deceitful and potentially criminal conduct in a financial matter." The allegation originated with...
On July 24, 2025, President Trump visited the Federal Reserve's headquarters renovation in Washington with Chair Jerome Powell, in a hard-hat tour broadcast live. Trump handed Powell a document asserting the project had...
On June 30, 2025, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt displayed a handwritten note Trump had sent to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Written across a printed list of central bank policy rates from other...