President Donald Trump has moved to fire Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook following accusations of mortgage fraud, in a continued push to control the central bank. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

The Trump administration on Sunday renewed its request to a federal appeals court to fire Lisa Cook, a Federal Reserve governor who has faced political scrutiny in recent weeks.

The move comes ahead of the independent central bank’s vote on interest rates this week. President Donald Trump has repeatedly called for the Fed to slash interest rates while publicly targeting Fed chair Jerome Powell.

The Trump administration filed its request to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ahead of Sunday’s 3 p.m. ET deadline. On Saturday, Cook’s team requested that the court reject Trump’s

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