One other stunt…
Fed Chair Jerome Powell pulled one other shady stunt after Trump officers requested a tour of the so-called $2.5 billion in constructing ‘renovations.’
On Friday Chairman of the Board of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Invoice Pulte, revealed Jerome Powell provided a tour of the renovations on Friday evening when nobody was there.
Per The White Home’s James Blair, Jerome Powell provided Our Group a Tour at 7pm final night, when nobody was doing so known as renovations. Very disappointing! One more instance of Powell dodging. Makes one much more involved — the place did this Billion $2.5 go?@JamesBlairUSA
— Pulte (@pulte) July 19, 2025
Powell is beneath fireplace for the price of renovating the Fed’s DC headquarters. The associated fee ballooned from $1.9 billion to $2.5 billion.
On Monday, Trump officers have been declined a request for an on website go to to tour the constructing renovations and as an alternative got a “digital website go to.”
“As a substitute of granting us our website go to, the Fed in the present day launched a “digital website go to” video,” Trump White Home official James Blair stated. “What do they not need us to see?”
As a substitute of granting us our website go to, the Fed in the present day launched a “digital website go to” video.
What do they not need us to see?
Fed Defends Renovations as Trump Administration Intensifies Assaults – The New York Occasions https://t.co/HUPEJm7Qdc
— James Blair (@JamesBlairUSA) July 21, 2025
Powell has been criminally referred to the Justice Division for prosecution.
On Monday GOP Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna despatched a letter to the DOJ accusing Powell of perjury.
“On June 25, 2025, Chairman Powell offered testimony beneath oath earlier than the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and City Affairs relating to the renovation of the Federal Reserve’s Eccles Constructing. In his statements, he made a number of materially false claims,” Luna’s letter stated, in line with Fox News.
Rep. Luna stated Powell was mendacity about the price of the renovations.
“Individually, in a letter to the Workplace of Administration and Funds (OMB) Director Russell Vought, Chairman Powell characterised the modifications that escalated the price of the undertaking from $1.9 billion to $2.5 billion as minor. Nevertheless, paperwork reviewed by congressional investigators point out that the scope and price overruns of this undertaking have been neither minor in nature nor in substance,” Luna wrote.
