The President’s campaign to bend the independent central bank to his will is straight out of the playbook of populist strongmen and will likely go on for years.

President Donald Trump visited the Federal Reserve headquarters in Washington Thursday, where he publicly scorned Fed chairman Jerome Powell over the costs of a long-planned, roughly $2.5 billion renovation project.

Sweeping changes are coming to the world’s most powerful central bank, President Donald Trump and his top advisers have said — and they’re already starting to make good on that promise.