Establishment Fears About Trump’s Focus on the Fed Are About Optics, Not Policy

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Tags: The Fed, Politics

09/25/2025 Connor O'Keeffe

The political establishment is trying to stoke panic that Trump is “politicizing” the Federal Reserve. But it’s already political. The real danger, from their perspective, is not that Trump is changing the Fed; it’s that he’s making its true nature harder to hide.

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