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Bessent advised Trump against firing Powell: Report
A Wall Street Journal report on Saturday detailed Bessent's concerns in talks with the president over a possible ousting of the Fed chairman.
Powell once said he couldn’t imagine leaving the Fed early—other than dying. ‘You will not see me getting in the lifeboat’
"It doesn't occur to me in the slightest that there would be any situation in which I would not complete my term other than dying," Powell said in 2019.