Trump, Jerome Powell and the tariff blame game

On this episode, The Washington Post's Rhonda Colvin, James Hohmann and JM Rieger break down President Trump's broadside at Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell on Thursday , saying he looks forward to Powell's "termination." The crew explains why Trump wants Powell out as Fed chair – and his long history of targeting the country's central banking system for criticism. Then, a federal judge said he would launch an investigation into whether Trump officials should face criminal contempt charges for defying his order not to remove Venezuelan migrants from the United States. What would happen if an official actually faced a contempt charge?

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Trump, Jerome Powell and the tariff blame game is an episode from Can He Do That? by The Washington Post.

This episode is 28:40 long.

This episode was published on Apr 17, 2025.

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