President Donald Trump said Thursday that if he asks Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to leave, “he’ll be out of there.”

“I don’t think he’s doing the job,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, reports The Hill. “He’s too late. Always too late. A little slow. And I’m not happy with him. I let him know it.”

Powell has insisted that he can’t be fired and won’t leave the job before his term ends, even if Trump demands he do so.

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