Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell in a Thursday letter countered criticisms leveled at the central bank by a top White House official over a $2.5 billion renovation project.

Fed Governor Christopher Waller, at a New York event, said the US central bank should lower borrowing costs at its July 29-30 policy meeting to preserve the labor market’s stren

Fed Chair Jerome Powell is under fire from the White House, which accuses him of bungling a renovation of the Fed's HQ and has suggested it could be cause to fire him.

Jerome Powell offered his first detailed defense of a $2.5 billion renovation of the Federal Reserve's headquarters, arguing in a Thursday letter to White House budget director Russell Vought that 'we take seriously the responsibility to be good stewards of public resources.

As the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Bill Pulte oversees the system that helps keep the U.S. mortgage market liquid.

(Reuters) -The spiraling cost of the Federal Reserve's years-long renovation of two historic buildings in Washington, D.C., has become the latest flashpoint in the Trump administration's escalating pressure campaign on Fed Chair Jerome Powell, whom Trump wants out of the central bank because he hasn't delivered the interest-rate cuts he wants.

An excerpt from "Trillion Dollar Triage" details Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s measured public responses – and more candid private reactions – to Trump’s ongoing threats to fire him.