Watch Trump and Powell bicker on a building site

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U.S. President Donald Trump sparred with Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell in a rare presidential visit to the Reserve.  During a press conference Trump said that the renovation cost for the Fed buildings had gone up from $2.5bn to $3.1bn.  Powell responded that he was ‘not aware of that’,  to which Trump handed Powell a piece of paper.   Powell pushed back and said the president was including an extra building that had been renovated five years ago.  #trump #powell #potus #us #usa #fed #uspol #uspolitics #donaldtrump

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00:00It looks like it's about $3.1 billion.

00:02It went up a little bit, or a lot.

00:05So the $2.7 billion is now $3.1 billion.

00:08I'm not aware of that.

00:09Yeah, it just came out.

00:11Yeah, I haven't heard that from anybody in the Fed.

00:15Yeah, it just came out.

00:19Our most added about $3.1 billion as well.

00:21$3.1 billion.

00:22$3.2 billion just came from us?

00:24Yes.

00:25I don't know who does that.

00:26No, you're including the Martin renovation.

00:31You just added in a third building is what that is.

00:35That's a third building.

00:36It's a building that's being built.

00:38No, it was built five years ago.

00:40We finished Martin five years ago.

00:43It's part of the overall work.

00:45It's not new.

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