{"id":12186,"date":"2025-07-25T02:25:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T02:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=12186"},"modified":"2025-07-25T02:25:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T02:25:47","slug":"powell-corrects-trump-on-cost-of-fed-renovations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=12186","title":{"rendered":"Powell Corrects Trump on Cost of Fed Renovations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Powell Corrects Trump on Cost of Fed Renovations<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p><span>Back<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-8p0vwh\">Powell Corrects Trump on Cost of Fed Renovations<\/h2>\n<h4 class=\"css-qsd3hm\">During a tour of the Federal Reserve\u2019s headquarters, President Trump debated with Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair, over the cost of renovations to the central bank\u2019s headquarters.<\/h4>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">\u201cIt looks like it\u2019s about $3.1 billion. It went up a little bit \u2014 or a lot. So the $2.7 is now $3.1, and \u2014\u201d \u201cI\u2019m not aware of that.\u201d \u201cYeah, it just came out.\u201d \u201cYeah, I haven\u2019t heard that from anybody at the Fed.\u201d \u201cYeah it just came out.\u201d \u201cAbout $3.1 as well.\u201d \u201cThis came from us?\u201d \u201cYes ,I don\u2019t know who does that.\u201d \u201cYou\u2019re including the Martin renovation \u2014 you just added, you just added in a third building is what that is. That\u2019s a third building.\u201d \u201cBut it\u2019s a building that\u2019s being built.\u201d \u201cNo, it\u2019s been \u2014 it was built five years ago.\u201d Reporter: \u201cAre there things the chairman can say to you today that would make you back off some of the earlier criticism?\u201d \u201cWell, I\u2019d love him to lower interest rates, but other than that, what can I tell you? I thought we had a good meeting. I really did. No, there was no tension. I see a very luxurious situation taking place. Let\u2019s put it that way. There\u2019s always Monday-morning quarterbacks. I don\u2019t want to be that. I want to help them get it finished. It\u2019s been going on for years. And I want to help them get it finished.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recent episodes in <span class=\"css-1galvr2\">U.S. &amp; Politics<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Show more videos from U.S. &amp; Politics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video loaded: Powell Corrects Trump on Cost of Fed Renovations transcript Back transcript Powell Corrects Trump on Cost of Fed Renovations During a tour of the Federal Reserve\u2019s headquarters, President Trump debated with Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair, over the cost of renovations to the central bank\u2019s headquarters. \u201cIt looks like it\u2019s about<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[961,342,4437,4439,5153,81],"class_list":{"0":"post-12186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-social-issues","8":"tag-corrects","9":"tag-cost","10":"tag-fed","11":"tag-powell","12":"tag-renovations","13":"tag-trump"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}