Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill are skeptical about President Trump’s attempt to fire Lisa Cook, the first Black woman to serve on the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, but they’re keeping quiet for now to avoid a direct confrontation with Trump.

Republican sources say that Senate Republicans didn’t support Cook’s nomination to the Fed when then-President Joe Biden tapped her for the job in 2022, but they view Trump’s claim that he’s firing her for cause as weak and worry that he’s trampling on the Fed’s independence.

One senior Senate GOP aide who requested anonymity to comment candidly on Trump’s effort to oust Cook said the president doesn’t appear to have any real “cause” to do so.

“If he has cause to fire her over an allegation of malfeasance from before she was even confi

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