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Such a firing would potentially be illegal (as the Supreme Court recently noted) and undermine decades of goodwill that Fed policymakers have built up with investors. Trump quickly took the threat back,
The Trump administration has revoked $4 billion in federal funding for California's long-delayed high speed rail project.
U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday creating a new classification of non-career federal workers who can more easily be fired if they fail to carry out a president's priorities,
Christopher Waller, a potential contender to be the next chair of the central bank, said the Federal Reserve should not wait for the labor market to weaken to reduce interest rates.
Trump administration's dismissal of FTC member Rebecca Slaughter was overturned by a D.C. judge who cited the agency's century-old independence safeguards.
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The renewable industry accused the Interior Department of obstructing wind and solar projects for political reasons.
The independence of central banks, which allows policymakers to operate free from political meddling, is considered sacrosanct by investors and economists.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi is touring former Alcatraz prison and the surrounding island, as the Trump administration pushes the idea of re-establishing it as a prison more than 60 years after it was closed.
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