Will the Supreme Court allow Trump to fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell?

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  Good morning.

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  It's Tuesday, April 22nd.

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  I'm Shamita Basu.

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  This is Apple News Today.

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  On today's show,

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  why some immigrants are considering self-deportation,

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  Google might have to break up its businesses,

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  and on Earth Day, a look at how clean energy is winning.

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  But first, President Trump is suggesting he wants to remove Fed Chair Jerome Powell.

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  Here he is talking with reporters last week.

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  If I want him out, he'll be out of there real fast, believe me.

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  Trump has called Powell a major loser and has said

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  that Powell's termination cannot come fast enough.

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  The thing is,

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  the Federal Reserve is one of a few government agencies designed to be entirely independent.

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  The idea is that it allows them to do their work untouched by political pressures.

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  But that could soon change.

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  The Supreme Court is addressing a question about whether the president can fire members of independent agencies for anything other than cause.

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  That's the Wall Street Journal's chief economics commentator, Greg Ip.

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  If they do, then in theory,

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