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Fed Watchdog Finds No Crime in HQ Renovation Overruns

Fed Watchdog Finds No Crime in $2.4B HQ Renovation Overruns

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

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The watchdog's findings knock the legs out from under athe Trump administration's 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 foreignthings 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 the 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 steppingPowell must step down,. becauseIncompetence incompetence with public money carriesmust carry consequences.


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