Yellen calls Trump’s Powell investigation ‘most disturbing’

May 2, 2026 - 04:00
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Yellen calls Trump’s Powell investigation ‘most disturbing’
Former Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who also served as chair of the Federal Reserve, ripped the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) investigation into her successor, Jerome Powell, on Thursday as a “disturbing” attack on the Fed’s independence. “I think what President Trump is doing is unprecedented, and the most recent and most disturbing, in a way,…