President Trump says Fed Chair Jerome Powell will likely keep his job, despite reports to the contrary.

Backlash continues on both sides of the Epstein Files debate, and assaults on ICE agents hit unbelievable highs.

I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Executive Editor John Bickley. It's Wednesday,

July 16th, and this is Evening Wire. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's future is on the

mind of President Trump. Daily Wire's senior editor, Cabot Phillips, has more.

Speaking from the White House, President Trump says it's, quote, highly unlikely that he'll fire Jerome Powell, but he did not completely rule out the idea.

Unless he has to leave fraud, I mean, it's possible there's fraud involved with the $2.5, $2.7 billion renovation.

So you know that's going on.

So there could be something to that, but I think he's not doing a good job.

He's got a very easy job to do.

You know what he has to do?

Lower interest rates.

This comes after reports that President Trump had drafted a termination letter,

which he showed Republican lawmakers at an Oval Office meeting yesterday.

Many of them were reportedly on board.

While some advisors had warned the move could backfire,

others say Trump may just be testing the waters to pressure Powell. The White House has not confirmed

any action. Powell's term as chair ends in eight months, and Trump hinted that he'll make a change

then. The Epstein Files fallout continues as President Trump lashed out at critics on the right today over what he calls

the Jeffrey Epstein hoax. Daily Wire Deputy Managing editor Tim Rice has the latest.

In a fiery truth social post this morning, Trump called some of those in his base weaklings

for buying into what he called Democrat-driven BS and added that he doesn't want their support anymore.

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