WASHINGTON (AP) — After months of criticizing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, President Donald Trump took the fight to the Fed’s front door on Thursday, publicly scorning the central bank chief over the ballooning costs of a long-planned building project. Powell pushed back, challenging the president’s latest price tag as incorrect.

President Donald Trump’s unprecedented walk-through of the Federal Reserve’s now-controversial building renovation project with Jerome Powell ended with a sign of relief for the central bank chief who’s been under pressure for months to slash interest rates.

President Donald Trump stood on a construction site Thursday at the Federal Reserve and insisted there was “no pressure” being applied to Fed Chair Jerome Powell about lowering interest rates. He and top aides then spent the next 16 hours turning up the heat on Powell — and the president was at it