{"id":71795,"date":"2026-04-15T11:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T16:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/trump-threatens-to-fire-fed-chair-jerome-powell-amid-pressure-campaign\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T11:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T16:55:12","slug":"trump-threatens-to-fire-fed-chair-jerome-powell-amid-pressure-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/trump-threatens-to-fire-fed-chair-jerome-powell-amid-pressure-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump threatens to fire Fed chair Jerome Powell amid pressure campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president says he has \u2018held back\u2019 on firing the head of the Federal Reserve leading up to end of Powell\u2019s term in May<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Donald Trump threatened to fire Jerome Powell if he stays on as US Federal Reserve chair past the end of his tenure and doubled down on a criminal investigation into renovations of the central bank\u2019s headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>As the White House pushes Trump\u2019s new nominee to take charge of the Fed, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/apr\/14\/trump-federal-reserve-pick-kevin-warsh\">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.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/apr\/15\/trump-threatens-fire-fed-chair-jerome-powell\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president says he has \u2018held back\u2019 on firing the head of the Federal Reserve leading up to end of Powell\u2019s term in May Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Donald Trump threatened to fire Jerome Powell if he stays on as US Federal Reserve chair &#8230; <a title=\"Trump threatens to fire Fed chair Jerome Powell amid pressure campaign\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/trump-threatens-to-fire-fed-chair-jerome-powell-amid-pressure-campaign\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump threatens to fire Fed chair Jerome Powell amid pressure campaign\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}