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Trump says he’s unlikely to fire Jerome Powell

Washington | President-elect Donald Trump has outlined an aggressive plan for opening his second term, vowing to move immediately to crack down on immigration and pardon his most violent supporters while threatening to lock up political foes such as former House Republican Liz Cheney.

In his first TV interview since being re-elected, Trump said that on day one of his new administration next month, he would extend clemency to the hundreds of his backers who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and try to bar automatic citizenship for children born in the United States to immigrant parents.

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