Deepa Shivaram

It happens.

What's been the reaction more broadly to this news over the last couple of days?

And to the point of who's going to kind of win in this push and pull, I will say also that arguments are coming up in the next week or so at the Supreme Court over whether Trump has the authority to fire a member of the Federal Reserve, right?

Lisa Cook.

So that is going to be something we're obviously going to be watching as we get a sense of who's going to win this battle.

But Scott, I also want to back up because this is one of those times where I have you here.

And this is a question, a very basic economic question that I've had a lot last couple months, honestly, as this has been going back and forth.

President Trump

once lower interest rates, but he campaigned on the kind of runaway inflation of the post-COVID time.

And I think one of the things I'm confused about is wouldn't lowering interest rates at a time when the country is not ready for it, couldn't that potentially send us back into the inflationary problem that President Trump spent so much time talking about?

I just don't ever hear him engaging with that possibility.

I don't really.

Am I misunderstanding something or is that a real risk?

All right.

Well, we can leave it there for today.

I do always appreciate you having you here, Scott, to be able to bounce all of this stuff off you.

Thanks for doing it.

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I'm Myles Parks.

I cover voting.