President Donald Trump, after a tour of the Fed’s $2.5 billion renovation, said he didn’t want to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell because of the plan’s cost overruns.

President Donald Trump and several allies made a rare visit to the Federal Reserve today, where they surveyed the renovation unfolding at the central bank – and sparred publicly with Chair Jerome Powell.

Donald Trump has been bullying Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell—calling him “too late,” insulting his intelligence, and trying to gin up a case that Powell spent too much on renovations of the agency’s headquarters as a pretext for firing him.