Donald Trump accentuates the pressure on the Fed by claiming the resignation of the Governor Lisa Cook

Everything has his business to reshape the American Federal Reserve (Fed) in his hand. Donald Trump has found a new target, Lisa Cook. The President of the United States published a message on his Truth Social network on Wednesday August 20. targeting the economist, member of the Governors’ Council of the American Central Bank: “Cook must resign, now !!! »»

This declaration follows the publication of several press articles revealing that the White House is seriously planning to dismiss its Lisa Cook. 61, appointed to the Fed by Joe Biden in 2022, whose mandate ends in 2036. Governors. guarantors of the independence of the institution, are supposed to be protected from the moods of the presidency, and can only donald trump accentuates pressure fed be dismissed for serious facts.

In this case. Lisa Cook is the subject of an online campaign led by Bill Pulte, the head of the federal housing financing agency. This close relative of Mr. Trump. donor of his campaign claims, in a post on X published on Wednesday, that the governor completed, in 2021, requests for real estate loans for two goods, located in Michigan and Georgia, indicating each time that it was his main residence, which makes it possible to obtain more advantageous rates. The validity of these accusations has not been confirmed.

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