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Speculation about Powell’s discount-US courses collapse

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Updated on April 22nd, 2025 – 00:40 a.m.Reading time: 48 min.

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Jerome Powell: The US government checks a possible dismissal of the central bank manager. (Source: Imago/Audrey Richardson/Imago)

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In the dispute over the migrants Kilmar Ábrego García, which was deported to El Salvador and imprisoned there, once again traveled to the Central American country. Democratic MP Yassamin Ansari wrote on Monday on online networks that she wanted to put Ábrego García back to the USA with her visit “print” on US President Donald Trump. “We want to make sure that Kilmar is still alive,” Ansari continued.

Democratic MP Maxwell Frost wrote in the short message service X: “Trump illegally arrests people, throws them into prison and pushes them off without proper procedure.” The US government must be held accountable for these “illegal acts”, and Ábrego García also had to be released. “Today it is he, everyone else could be,” wrote Frost.

Together with Ansari and Frost, the Democrats Robert Garcia and Maxine Dexter traveled to El Salvador. The democratic Senator Chris van Hollen had recently traveled to the country and had been able to meet Ábrego García there.

The approval rate for US President Donald Trump has dropped to the lowest level since his return to the White House. This results in a Reuters/IPSOS survey. According to the survey, 42 percent of Trump’s office was positively evaluated. Three weeks ago it was 43 percent. After his inauguration on January 20, the approval rate was 47 percent. About 59 percent of the respondents stated that America loses credibility in the world. Three quarters of the respondents said Trump should not run for a third term. Trump himself is flirting with it, even though the US constitution prohibits this.

In his short message service Truth Social, US President Donald Trump explains that his government cannot grant every candidate to show a legal contestation of his case. “This would take 200 years without exaggeration,” writes the head of state.

The most important US stock markets came under pressure on Monday after the extended Easter weekend. The Dow-Jones index closed 2.48 percent lower at 38,170.41 points. The NASDAQ 100, which mainly filled with technology values, dropped by 2.46 percent to 17,808.30 points.

As with other investment classes, the American government also caused uncertainty. US President Donald Trump had complained several times about the central bank’s refusal to reduce interest rates.

On Friday, Kevin Hassett, director of the USA National Economic Council of the United States, said, the President Proxim, whether he was able to dismiss Powell. The independence of the central banks of political influences is really important for their work, emphasized Chicago’s Fed President Austan Goolsbee in a reaction on Sunday.

The Elite University Harvard has filed a lawsuit against the US administration under President Donald Trump. This is reported by US media, including the “Washington Post” on Monday evening. It argues in the lawsuit that the government’s measures, including the freezing of federal funds of $ 2.2 billion, violates the first amendment, i.e. the first constitutional addition of the US constitution, and therefore do not correspond to the legal procedures.

US President Donald Trump will travel to Italy to burial the Pope Francis. He announced this on the Truth Social online platform. It is the first announced trip abroad in the new term. He was accompanied by his wife Melania, Trump wrote.

It is now unclear whether Trump will visit other places in the course of his journey to bury the Pope. Read more here.