By Michael S. Derby NEW YORK (Reuters) -Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams declined on Wednesday to comment on President Donald Trump’s attacks on the central bank and what it might mean if the president were to somehow remove the Fed’s leader from office.

Powell sent a letter Thursday to Powell sent a letter to Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought in response to OMB director's letter last week criticizing the chairman's management of the $2.5 billion renovation, which is $700 million over budget, CNN reported.

President Donald Trump's appointees to a Washington project review board pushed the Federal Reserve five years ago to use more marble for a renovation project at its headquarters campus that the White House is now using as the basis for attacks on central bank Chair Jerome Powell,