Rep. French Hill

attorney for the District of Columbia.

I'd say it is, in my personal opinion, an overreaction to concerns about the construction at the Fed.

And I don't agree with that approach.

Yeah, I think we'll always second guess whenever we make a public statement as a public figure.

I won't second guess the decision that he took about that.

I'll just let it play out the way it is.

But I do believe that trying to criminalize that kind of behavior, I just don't agree with that.

Well, I think it could throw it off track.

I think it's a distraction to Treasury Secretary Besson's very able partnership with the president to identify a new Fed chair, something they've worked on for months.

And the president has had interviews consistently over the last few weeks, and he's close to taking a decision.

And that this decision, whoever made the recommendation to do this, I think was a mistake because I think, as I've said, it distracts from our economic agenda, benefiting working families with lower cost and more accessibility to capital and housing.

And it's a distraction to Treasury Secretary Besant and President Trump's excellent work to identify a new leader for the Federal Reserve, something that we want and we want clarity on on Capitol Hill.

So that's why I think whoever made a recommendation.

That's possible.

I don't know that it's a threat to independence.

I think it's a distraction to the work we're trying to do here to move the economy forward, to complement the big tax changes we made to benefit working families last year.

We want to do the same thing this year.

to open up regulatory policy, make it easy not only just to permit the growth of the energy industry in the country and critical minerals.

These are goals of the president.

But we also want to reduce that regulatory burden on housing construction and capital access for the American economy.