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President Trump visited the headquarters of the U.S.
Federal Reserve yesterday and met Fed chair Jerome Powell.
Trump has complained the Fed is too slow to lower interest rates.
Yesterday, he grumbled about the final cost of building renovations at the Fed.
Trump handed Powell a document.
Powell read it and said the extra costs Trump cited there were for a building that had been finished five years ago.
NPR's Tamara Keith says Trump and his aides are still reviewing it.
The project is very much over budget by hundreds of millions of dollars,
in part due to steel tariffs, COVID,
inflation and the challenges of retrofitting historic buildings with modern standards.
But Trump didn't seem particularly satisfied and neither were top aides who came with him on the tour,
including budget director Russell Vogt, who made it clear that this is not going away.