President Donald Trump insisted there was “no tension” between him and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell during an at-times contentious tour of the construction on the central bank’s headquarters Thursday afternoon.
The tour came amid a months-long pressure campaign by the president to cajole Powell into reducing interest rates, a theme he repeatedly visited while speaking with reporters at the site.
Immediately after the tour ended, Trump said: “Very importantly, we have to get interest rates lowered in our country.”