As Republicans urge Trump to scrap federal prosecutors’ investigation of the Federal Reserve’s ongoing renovation, President Donald Trump signaled he may accept a different probe.
Asked by Semafor at the White House Thursday if someone outside the Justice Department could get the answers he sought, Trump said: “[They] could. I mean, look, it’s pretty easy.”
Senators — and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent — have floated congressional and inspector general investigations in place of US Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s in order for Sen Thom Tillis, R-N.C., to drop his blockade of Kevin Warsh’s nomination.
“You have to find out what went wrong,” Trump said in response to a previous question about what he hoped to learn from Pirro’s probe that he did not find out when he visited the renovation himself. “It was beautiful, and they ripped it down, and probably because it cost so much to fix it.”
Though Trump didn’t mention Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s involvement with the project, he still took a swing: “On top of that, he’s been terrible on interest rates.”