Pence Says Trump Has Right to Share Views on Powell, Fed Policy

Former Vice President Mike Pence said Donald Trump had the right to publicly share his views about Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and decision-making on interest rates — and that he had his own concerns about the central bank’s policies.

“I think the President of the United States is fully entitled to express his opinion about both the Fed chair and about the Federal Reserve itself,” Pence said in an interview Thursday on Bloomberg Television.

“I don’t really accept that the Federal Reserve should be a completely separate agency, you know, like a College of Cardinals that we never refer ...