It's Tuesday, January 13th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is what a day, the show that wants to remind you that one of the many problems with getting big checks from President Donald Trump from tariff revenue is that he's going to forget. He promised to give you big checks from tariff revenue. Here he is talking to the New York Times last week.

You promised $2,000 checks to Americans based off of your tariff revenue. Here he is talking to the New York Times last week. You promised $2,000 checks to Americans based off of your tariff revenues.

I did do that. When did I do that?

Grandpa will get you that check just as soon as he remembers where he put his pen.

Yeah. On today's show, the Environmental Protection Agency shoves an industry-shaped knife into the back of, you guessed it, the environment.

And I-D-E-P-E-P-E-N-D-T, do you know what that means? According to a New Gallup poll,

it means young people are abandoning both parties in droves. But let's start with the Federal Reserve.

The normally, let's say, subdued, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell went nuclear on Sunday night.

After the Department of Justice opened a criminal investigation into his handling of renovations to the Fed's D.C. headquarters and whether or not he lied to Congress about

them. But as Powell said in a video posted on the Federal Reserve's social media, that's just a

pretext. The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Federal Reserve setting interest

rates based on our best assessment of what

will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the president.

This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence

and economic conditions, or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political

pressure or intimidation.

To be clear, that's nuclear for Jerome Powell, a man who seems like he'd react to a plane landing

on his head by saying something like, that's less than ideal.

And he has every right to be upset.

We've already seen efforts by the Trump administration to prosecute a number of people

the president doesn't like,

from New York Attorney General, Letitia James, to former FBI director James Comey.

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