Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is sharply criticizing President Donald Trump’s removal of Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook, accusing him of “playing a dangerous game of Jenga” while risking the independence of the central bank and the stability of the U.S. economy.

“Any attempt to fire Lisa Cook from her position of Governor at the Federal Reserve is just the latest in Donald Trump’s DC partisan games to rig the economy for his billionaire donors at the expense of hardworking Americans,” Schumer said, according to a post on the social media platform X from C-SPAN Capitol Hill producer Craig Caplan early Tuesday.

“This attempted firing shreds the independence of the Fed and puts every American’s savings and mortgage at risk,” Schumer said.

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