President Donald Trump said Scott Bessent was an option to replace Jerome Powell as head of the Federal Reserve but suggested the Treasury secretary was not the leading candidate because of his success in his current role.

The White House is exploring every avenue of executive power to get what President Trump wants from the Federal Reserve: lower interest rates.

President Trump, left, has accused Fed boss Powell, right, of being too slow to cut interest rates and this week described him as a 'knucklehead'.

Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency Bill Pulte discusses President Donald Trump's attacks on Fed Chair Jerome Powell on 'The Ingraham Angle.'

President Donald Trump on Wednesday reignited his attacks against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and called for significant rate cuts yet again to trim the federal deficit. In two posts on his social media platform Truth Social,

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President Donald Trump’s attacks on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell are so commonplace at this point that they barely register in financial markets these days. The rapidly intensifying multi-pronged efforts by Trump’s advisers to amplify and expand on Trump’s attacks are a good reason to rethink that indifference.

President Donald Trump has once again criticized Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, saying that he had kept interest rates too high. According to POTUS, the Fed rate is at least 3 points high. Trump wrote on his Truth social website that,