Less than a day after news of a Department of Justice probe into Federal Reserve Board of Governors Chair Jerome Powell left key senators and veteran economists aghast at the Trump administration's escalating pressure campaign against the central bank, the prosecutor overseeing the probe appears to want to calm the waters.
District of Columbia U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro took to X late Monday to claim that her office had requested information from the Federal Reserve about a long-running renovation project that President Donald Trump has accused Powell of mismanaging.
