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Fed Watchdog Finds No Crime in $2.4B HQ Renovation

Fed Watchdog Finds No Crime in $2.4B HQ Renovation

Fed Watchdog Finds No Crime in $2.4B HQ Renovation
Above: Governor of the U.S. Federal Reserve Jerome Powell. Image credit: Mel Musto/Bloomberg/Getty Images

The Spin


The watchdog's findings knock the legs out from under a political vendetta that was never about construction costs in the first place. Chasing Fed officials with prosecutors is just a distraction from tariff chaos and foreign entanglements that are actually hurting the economy. Real fixes come from Congress writing better transparency rules, not from threats aimed at central bankers who won't bend on interest rates.

Blowing past budget by hundreds of millions with no guaranteed maximum price years into construction is a management failure so glaring that no clean bill of health can excuse it. Anyone who can't keep a single building project under control has no business steering the nation's interest rate policy. Accountability here means stepping down, because incompetence with public money carries consequences.


The Controversies


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