U.S. President Donald Trump toured the Federal Reserve this week in the first instance of an incumbent leader visiting the central bank since 2006. Despite some visible squabbling with chair Jerome Powell over the construction costs of the Fed's new headquarters and Trump's repeated insistence to lower interest rates,

It’s a highly personal and confrontational escalation of Trump’s campaign to pressure the central bank to slash interest rates.

President Trump visited the Federal Reserve with Chair Jerome Powell and Sen. Tim Scott amid weeks of claims that the Fed’s renovation costs were fraudulently inflated. But during the tour, Powell corrected Trump’s $3.