President Donald Trump has looked to the marble finishes and hefty price tag of the Federal Reserve headquarters to claim grounds to fire Chair Jerome Powell, with whom he has tussled for years over interest rates.

Russell T. Vought, the head of the Office of Management and Budget, said he and other administration officials wanted access to the Fed’s building in Washington.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Thursdayresponded to a Trump administration official's demands for information about cost overruns for a renovation project at the central bank's Washington headquarters campus,