US central bank governor to sue Trump

美中央行行长将起诉特朗普

World Business Report

2025-08-27

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Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook will file a lawsuit challenging her removal by President Donald Trump, marking a major escalation in the president's battle with the US central bank. So does President Trump have the power to fire the governor? Roger Hearing hears from a legal expert. And in just a few hours’ time, unless there's a last-minute change of heart, Indians will be dealing with 50% tariffs on most exports to the United States. It's punishment for New Delhi's purchases of Russian oil, which Washington argues helps finance Moscow's war in Ukraine.
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  • Hello, and welcome to World Business Report from the BBC World Service.

  • I'm Roger Hearing, and on this edition, Donald Trump says he's sacked one of the Fed governors.

  • She says he doesn't have the authority to do it.

  • What will happen in this confrontation?

  • Also, India counts down to 50% tariffs on many of its exports to the US.

  • And we look at the South African movie industry.

  • But first, the standoff between Donald Trump and the US Federal Reserve has moved into a new phase.

  • He says he's fired one of the governors, Lisa Cook.

  • He accused her of making false statements on mortgage agreements.

  • She denies the allegations.

  • A statement by Ms Cook's lawyers says Mr Trump has no authority to sack her.

  • And now she says she's going to sue the president.

  • All this are the latest moves in the president's attempt to exert control over the US central bank.

  • Mr Trump's long call for the Fed, which is seen as independent of politics,

  • to slash interest rates, and has threatened to remove its chair, Jerome Powell.

  • Well, in the past few hours, the president was asked about Lisa Cook.

  • But now she seems to have had an infraction,

  • and she can't have an infraction, and especially that infraction,

  • because she's in charge of, if you think about it,

  • mortgages, and we need people that are 100% above board.