Trump’s move to fire Federal Reserve chief denounced as ‘authoritarian power grab’ – US politics live | US news

Hello and welcome to the US Policy Live Blog. I will bring Tom Ambrose and the latest news lines in the next few hours.

We start with news Donald Trump is accused of alleged to “park together” to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook.

The President said that he would lose his job in the face of allegations that he has committed the mortgage – an extraordinary movement that pointed out the last rise in Trump’s attack on the Independence of the Central Bank.

Trump wrote to Cook on Monday and said that one of his allies had taken him out of his position as “immediately enforced”, based on the claim that one of his allies were defined as the primary residence.

The US Assembly’s Financial Services Committee Maxine Waters’ high -level Democrat, Trump’s attack on Cook is a clear continuation of efforts to “weaken the independence of the Federal Reserve” and to pay attention to the economic difficulties caused by its policies. Waters said:

His latest goals are the first black woman in the Federal Reserve Governors Council since the creation of Dr. Lisa Cook, a high -quality, pioneering economist and Congress in 1913.

Let us be very clear, the allegations against Dr Cook came together as an excuse to try to change it with someone who would be loyal to Trump instead of the US Constitution or the US law.

Cook a few hours later, a statement sent to journalists through a lawyer’s law firm, a lawyer, said that there was no reason to dismiss Trump by Joe Biden in 2022.

He said:

I will continue to fulfill my duties to help the American economy.

Lowell said Trump’s demands, “There is no appropriate process, no basic or legal authority,” he said:

We will take all kinds of measures to prevent illegal action attempt.

Trump sent Full text of the letter On Monday night on social media. Inside, he said he had found a “sufficient reason” in his claim to take him out of his position.

Meanwhile, high -level democratic deputies condemned Trump’s attempt to ignite the cook. Massachusetts Senator and Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee Elizabeth Warren said, “The last example of a desperate president looking for a scapegoat for not lowering costs for Americans,” he said.

“Capturing an authoritarian force that clearly violates the Federal Reserve Law and has to be overthrown in court,” Warren said.

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In other developments:

• Trump, who was not violated, said that he returned to the “Ministry of War” before 1947 and plans to re -brand the “Ministry of Defense”.

• In a court application, the Trump administration said it plans to attract federal approval for an open sea wind farm on the coast of Maryland and Delaware.

• A large bruise, which was seen that the president was hiding under a make -up Daub last week, could be clearly seen during the public appearances and renewed speculation that the White House could hide information about his health.

• California republicans went to court to challenge a plan designed by the governor of the state, Gavin NewsomIn response to a redistribution plan aimed at giving five US home seats to Republicans in Texas, the congress limits.

• The video recorded for a FOX News Streaming documentary about Trump proved that the President of the President told journalists that Maryland Governor Wes Moore hugged in December in the Ordu-Navy football match and praised it.

• The Utah Legislative Assembly will have to rapidly redraw the congress boundaries after a judge decided that the organ under the control of the Republic has suffered for violating the rights of voters.