By Hadriana Lowenkron, Bloomberg News

President Donald Trump suggested he could seek to oust Federal Reserve governors appointed by President Joe Biden if their commissions were signed by autopen, in his latest bid to exert control over the central bank.

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The gambit is unlikely to come to fruition.

Previous Trump declarations that he was voiding Biden actions where the former president used an autopen have resulted in little more than eyerolls. Governors would be almost certain to mount a legal challenge to any effort to invalidate their Senate-backed appointments.

But the comments nevertheless represent the latest encroachment by the president on the independence of the central bank.

“I hear that the autopen may have signed those commissions,” Trump said during a pol

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