Targeted by Trump, Fed's Cook is a fighter with the scars to prove it

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook attends the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's 2025 Jackson Hole economic symposium, "Labor Markets in Transition: Demographics, Productivity, and Macroeconomic Policy" in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, U.S., August 23, 2025. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart

Jan 21 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's contested firing of Federal Reserve ‌Governor Lisa Cook has become a test case in his bid to assert control over the U.S. central bank and his ongoing efforts to ‌push the limits of presidential power.

As the first sitting Fed policymaker to be the target of an attempted presidential ouster, Cook is no ‌stranger either to being first, or to being targeted.