{"id":158242,"date":"2025-07-25T05:51:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T05:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-jerome-powell-tackles-inflation-of-white-house-figures-on-hq-upgrades-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T05:51:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T05:51:55","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-jerome-powell-tackles-inflation-of-white-house-figures-on-hq-upgrades-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-jerome-powell-tackles-inflation-of-white-house-figures-on-hq-upgrades-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: Jerome Powell tackles inflation of White House figures on HQ upgrades – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hardhats and bad math as Fed chief shows president\u2019s complaint about $3.1bn cost has been jacked up with old spending. Key US politics stories from 24 July 2025
\u201cIt looks like it\u2019s about $3.1bn \u2013 it went up a little bit or a lot,\u201d said Donald Trump<\/a>, handing Jerome Powell a piece of paper as they stood amid construction at the US Federal Reserve\u2019s Washington HQ. The usually unflappable Fed chief looked irritated, closed his eyes and shook his head. \u201cI am not aware of that,\u201d said Powell.
Powell scanned the paper and pointed out the figure wrongly included the cost of renovations for a different Fed building that was done five years ago. \u201cIt\u2019s not new,\u201d said Powell.
Here\u2019s more on this and the day\u2019s other key Trump administration<\/a> stories.
Donald Trump sparred with the Federal Reserve<\/a> chair, Jerome Powell, on Thursday during a rare presidential visit to the central bank\u2019s headquarters.
Trump was continuing his campaign to pressure the Fed to cut interest rates and was visiting its Washington headquarters to view costly renovations he has suggested are tantamount to fraud<\/a>.
Having called Powell a \u201cnumbskull\u201d<\/a> for the Fed\u2019s recent decisions not to cut rates, Trump has turned up the pressure on Powell with criticism of the $2.5bn bill for renovating the Fed\u2019s historical buildings.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The US is withdrawing its negotiating team from Gaza<\/a> ceasefire talks in Qatar after Donald Trump\u2019s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, pointed the finger at Hamas for a \u201clack of desire to reach a ceasefire\u201d.
\u201cWhile the mediators have made a great effort, Hamas does not appear to be coordinated or acting in good faith,\u201d Witkoff said<\/a> on Thursday. \u201cWe will now consider alternative options to bring the hostages home and try to create a more stable environment for the people of Gaza.\u201d
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> files scandal swirling around Donald Trump<\/a> and his administration<\/a> continued to escalate on Thursday as officials from the Department of Justice met with the late sex offender\u2019s longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell<\/a>, whose lawyer said she \u201canswered every question \u2026 honestly and to the best of her ability\u201d.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Former president Bill Clinton also sent a birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein, the Wall Street Journal reported. Last week, the Journal reported that Trump had authored a \u201cbawdy\u201d letter to Epstein as part of a birthday album compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Columbia University\u2019s<\/a> long anticipated deal with the Trump administration<\/a> after months of negotiations has drawn both condemnation and praise from faculty, students, and alumni \u2013 a sign that the end of negotiations will hardly restore harmony on a campus profoundly divided since the beginning of Israel\u2019s war in Gaza.
David Pozen, a professor at Columbia Law School, slammed the deal as giving \u201clegal form to an extortion scheme\u201d, he wrote<\/a>.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The US justice department has formed a \u201cstrike force\u201d to investigate claims that the Obama administration<\/a> carried out a \u201ctreasonous conspiracy\u201d by using false intelligence to suggest Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to help Donald Trump<\/a>.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Venezuelan<\/a> men who were deported by the US to a notorious prison<\/a> in El Salvador without due process are speaking out about treatment they described as \u201chell\u201d and like a \u201chorror movie\u201d, after arriving back home. A total of 252 Venezuelan nationals were repatriated in the last week in a deal between the US and Venezuelan governments, with many able to reunite with family after their ordeal in El Salvador.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The federal government is seeking to crack down on homelessness<\/a> in the US, with Donald Trump<\/a> issuing an executive order to push local governments to remove unhoused people from the streets.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order prohibiting \u201cthird-party, pay-for-play\u201d payments to college athletes, a move the White House says is intended to curb the booster-funded bidding wars that have upended the landscape of college sports in recent years.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
South Park kicked off its 27th season with a blistering episode taking aim at Trump<\/strong> and its newly minted parent company, Paramount, just one day after signing a $1.5bn deal with the network<\/a>.
Thousands of employees at the US Department of Agriculture will be forced to take salary cuts<\/a><\/strong> <\/a>and relocate out of the Washington DC area, as part of a major restructuring that experts warn will further weaken support for American farmers and complicate wildfire response.
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened on 23 July 2025<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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