Jerome Powell: “[It] doesn’t affect doing our job at all. We're always going to…”

On the recordMay 6, 2025

[It] doesn’t affect doing our job at all. We're always going to consider only the economic data, the outlook, the balance of risks, and that's it.

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Powell emphasizes that Trump's calls for lower rates do not influence the Fed's decisions.

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