WASHINGTON (AP) — As president, Donald Trump doesn’t get a lot of pushback, but he got some Thursday from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell about the renovation costs of the Fed’s headquarters. Standing in the plywood-sheathed building, Trump claimed the project was over budget at $3.1 billion. Powell disagreed, saying Trump’s number was including a building renovated five years ago and the real number was $2.5 billion. The exchange followed months of criticism by Trump of Powell’s decisions as Fed chair and an accompanying pressure campaign to get the central bank head to step down.
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