Speaker Johnson ‘not sure’ Trump has power to fire Fed chair

Amid reports that President Trump may attempt to fire the head of the Federal Reserve, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Wednesday that it’s unclear if the president has the power to do it.  “Can the president fire Jerome Powell? I’m really not sure,” Johnson, a former constitutional lawyer, told reporters in the Capitol. “I have been not…

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