Trump Wants Powell Out, Administration Risks Contempt, and Homegrowns Are Next

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🗓️ 17 April 2025

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Summary

President Trump is feuding with Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell. This all comes as Americans are feeling gloomier about the economy. Also, a judge found probable cause to find the government in criminal contempt, ruling that the Trump administration willfully disregarded an order to turn back airplanes carrying deported migrants to El Salvador, and President Trump says he is looking into whether the U.S. can detain citizens who commit crimes in overseas prisons.

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0:00.0	Good morning, A.
0:01.7	Hello.
0:02.4	How are you?
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0:18.5	Hadn't loaded yet.
0:19.8	Here I am.
0:20.3	Okay.
0:23.2	President Trump is blasting the nation's monetary policy chief over interest rates.
0:27.7	But can Trump push Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell out more than a year before his term ends?
0:32.8	I'm Michelle Martin.
0:33.7	That's A. Martinez.
0:34.7	And this is up first from NPR News.
0:40.3	A judge says the Trump administration ignored his orders to turn around two planes carrying alleged gang members to detention centers in El Salvador.
0:48.2	Treating court orders if they are optional. Will there be any consequences?
0:52.4	And President Trump says he would like to find a way to lock up Americans abroad.
0:56.3	That's the real fear that we have now is that he is going to try to evade judicial review of deportations of U.S. citizens.
1:05.9	Can the U.S. government actually do that?
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