President Donald Trump, after a tour of the Fed’s $2.5 billion renovation, said he didn’t want to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell because of the plan’s cost overruns.

After months of criticizing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, President Donald Trump took the fight to the Fed’s front door on Thursday, publicly scorning the central bank chief over the ballooning costs of a long-planned building project.

President Trump called the attention on the Jeffrey Epstein case a scam and turned his attention to the Federal Reserve.

Powell has said politics don't play a part in Fed rate decisions. He and his colleagues have held the key overnight borrowing rate in place since December, though markets largely expect a cut is on the way not at the Fed's July meeting, but in September.

President Donald Trump visited the Federal Reserve headquarters in Washington Thursday, where he publicly scorned Fed chairman Jerome Powell over the costs of a long-planned, roughly $2.5 billion renovation project.