{"id":207840,"date":"2026-04-16T04:35:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T04:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-president-renews-threats-against-federal-reserve-chair-pushes-his-replacement-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T04:35:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T04:35:34","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-president-renews-threats-against-federal-reserve-chair-pushes-his-replacement-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-president-renews-threats-against-federal-reserve-chair-pushes-his-replacement-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: president renews threats against federal reserve chair, pushes his replacement – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump reiterated his claim that Powell is doing a \u2018bad job\u2019 as justice department continues with criminal investigation into Powell over renovations at the Fed\u2019s headquarters \u2013 key US politics stories from 15 April at a glance
Donald Trump threatened to fire Jerome Powell if he stays on as US Federal Reserve<\/a> chair past the end of his tenure and doubled down on a criminal investigation into renovations of the central bank\u2019s headquarters.
As the White House pushes Trump\u2019s new nominee to take charge of the Fed, Kevin Warsh<\/a>, Powell has a month left in the role. The possibility of Powell staying on as chair past 15 May, the official end of his term, has grown amid mounting scrutiny of Trump\u2019s approach to the Fed in the Senate, which is required to approve Warsh\u2019s nomination.
\u201cI\u2019ll have to fire him, OK, if he\u2019s not leaving on time,\u201d Trump said of Powell during an interview on Fox Business. \u201cI\u2019ve held back firing him. I wanted to fire him, but I had to be controversial, you know? I want to be uncontroversial.\u201d
Trump reiterated his claim that Powell is doing a \u201cbad job\u201d and that \u201che should be lowering interest rates\u201d \u2013 an argument Trump has made repeatedly since returning to office in January 2025, placing him on a collision course with the slow, careful approach taken by Powell and other economists at the Fed.
Thom Tillis, a Republican senator from North Carolina and a member of the banking committee, said he will block Trump\u2019s nominee to succeed Powell until the Department of Justice ends its criminal investigation into Powell over renovations at the Fed\u2019s headquarters in Washington DC. Tillis has said<\/a> that he supports Warsh\u2019s nomination but said the Powell investigation is \u201creaching the point of absurd\u201d.
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The US and Iran<\/a> have been in indirect talks aimed at extending the two-week ceasefire beyond its expiry on 22 April, as Pakistan\u2019s army chief arrived in Tehran to continue mediation efforts.
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Many US households spent hundreds more tax dollars on the military last year, according to new analysis, as Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s plans to dramatically increase federal defense spending faces growing scrutiny.
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Several shots lost their recommendation from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) after a judge\u2019s stay against changes made by the Trump administration<\/a> \u2013 which may affect access to the shots in some states. And no new vaccine recommendations may be made as long as the vaccines committee is halted.
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Donald Trump has threatened to row back on the trade deal the US signed with the UK last year, in his latest salvo against the British government over sharp differences about the US\u2019s approach to the Middle East.
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The supreme court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson<\/a> has delivered a sustained attack on her conservative colleagues\u2019 use of emergency orders to benefit the Trump administration, calling the orders \u201cscratch-paper musings\u201d that can \u201cseem oblivious and thus ring hollow\u201d.
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Bernie Sanders on Wednesday led a failed effort to block the sale of bombs and bulldozers to Israel<\/a><\/strong>, but the votes revealed a growing appetite among Democrats to impose limits on US weapons transfers to a longtime US ally.
The former US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen has attacked Donald Trump\u2019s push for lower interest rates<\/a><\/strong>, comparing it to the actions of a \u201cbanana republic\u201d.
Concert giant Live Nation and its Ticketmaster<\/a> subsidiary had a harmful monopoly over big concert venues, a Manhattan federal jury has found<\/a><\/strong>, dealing the company a loss in a lawsuit over claims brought by dozens of US states.
The French government is pressing the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to release the 86-year-old French widow of a military veteran from immigration custody<\/a><\/strong> after she was detained earlier this month.
Donald Trump defended his consumption of diet soda by suggesting it might help prevent cancer<\/a><\/strong>, according to recent comments shared by Mehmet Oz in an interview with Donald Trump<\/a> Jr.
The world\u2019s top 100 oil and gas companies banked more than $30m every hour in unearned profit in the first month of the US-Israeli war in Iran<\/a><\/strong>, according to exclusive analysis for the Guardian.
The individual accused of placing pipe bombs near the headquarters of both the Republican<\/a> and Democratic<\/a> national committees on the night before the January 6 Capitol attack is now facing two more felony counts<\/a><\/strong>, as detailed in a newly released indictment<\/a> on Wednesday.
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened on 14 April 2026<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Trump reiterated his claim that Powell is doing a \u2018bad job\u2019 as justice department continues with criminal investigation into Powell over renovations at the Fed\u2019s headquarters \u2013 key US politics stories from 15 April at a glanceDonald Trump threatened to fire Jerome Powell if he stays on as US Federal Reserve chair past the end […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-207840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-us","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}