President Trump has lashed out at Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell in recent days, following Powell’s observation that tariffs could make the economy harder for the Fed to guide.

It is unclear whether Trump might seek to remove Powell as the head of the central bank. But even doing so wouldn’t necessarily give him control of the agency that makes policy decisions using both the centralized board of governors and regional banks across the country.

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