Lisa Cook is the first Black woman to serve as a Fed governor.Credit...Brittany Greeson for The New York Times Fed firing: The commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, on Tuesday kept up the Trump administration’s attacks on Lisa Cook,

Trump said Monday night that he's firing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, an unprecedented move that would constitute a sharp escalation in his battle to exert greater control over what has long been considered an institution independent from day-to-day politics.