Fed up

厌倦了

Today, Explained

2025-08-28

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President Donald Trump wants to control interest rates. To do that, he needs to control the Federal Reserve. So he's turned to a toady to dig up dirt on Fed governor Lisa Cook. This episode was produced by Rebeca Ibarra and Devan Schwartz, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Andrea Kristinsdottir and Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast. President Trump mocking Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell at a recent event. Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  • Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey are engaged.

  • But President Trump thinks interest rates are too high, so we have to do that instead.

  • For months,

  • the president has engaged in Fed-related criticism about the reserve chair Jerome Powell.

  • He's a terrible Fed chair.

  • I was surprised he was appointed.

  • Trump actually appointed him to that job, you may recall.

  • There's been criticism about the Fed doing an expensive building reno.

  • We'd like to see it get finished.

  • And in many ways, it's too bad it started.

  • And now Trump has trained his intermittent focus on Lisa Cook, a governor on the Fed's board.

  • Trump says he's going to fire her for committing mortgage fraud.

  • She's saying basically bring it.

  • You've heard all that.

  • But who is the Trump appointee who went digging for dirt on Cook?

  • That's ahead on Today Explained from Vox.

  • Megan Rapinoe here.

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  • a.k.a. the youngest NWSL draft pick ever, Alyssa Thompson.

  • We talk about making a run for the playoffs, what it's like to play with your sister,