Trump administration moves ahead with efforts to fire Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook
- The Trump administration is moving forward with efforts to fire Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook.
- The Supreme Court allowed Cook to retain her job while she challenges her termination over mortgage fraud allegations.
- Cook has denied the allegations and claims they are politically motivated.
- White House aide Dan Scavino informed Cook that Trump is considering her removal, giving her until August 26 to respond.
- The allegations involve Cook declaring two homes as her primary residence to obtain better mortgage rates.
The Trump administration is moving ahead with its efforts to fire Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, two months after the Supreme Court allowed her to retain her job while she fights the president’s effort to terminate her over mortgage fraud allegations that she has denied.
The justices in a 5-4 decision in June said Cook, who was nominated to the Fed’s Board of Governors by President Joe Biden, could remain in her post at least as long as her lawsuit challenging her firing goes on. The Trump administration is appealing a lower-court ruling in Cook’s favor.
In a letter this week obtained by The Associated Press, White House aide Dan Scavino told Cook that Trump was “considering removing you from your position” but cited the Supreme Court’s requirement of proper notice in giving her until August 26 to challenge it. The attempt to fire Cook is rooted in a criminal referral made last August by Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, that accused her of committing mortgage fraud by declaring two different homes as “primary residence.”
特朗普政府推进解雇联邦储备委员会理事丽莎·库克的努力
特朗普政府正在推进解雇联邦储备委员会理事丽莎·库克的努力，距最高法院允许她在与总统的解雇努力作斗争时保留职位已有两个月。
最高法院在6月以5-4的裁决表示，库克可以至少在她挑战解雇的诉讼进行期间保留她的职位。特朗普政府正在对有利于库克的下级法院裁决提出上诉。
本周，白宫助手丹·斯卡维诺在一封获得美联社的信中告诉库克，特朗普“正在考虑解除你的职务”，并引用最高法院要求的适当通知，给予她直到8月26日的时间进行挑战。解雇库克的尝试源于联邦住房金融局局长比尔·普尔特去年8月提出的刑事举报，指控她通过将两处不同的房产声明为“主要居所”而犯下抵押贷款欺诈。