Trump’s sprint to take control of the Fed played out in split-screen. On Capitol Hill, Trump’s pick to fill a Fed vacancy seat faced questioning over an unprecedented plan to keep his White House job while at the central bank. A few blocks away, government lawyers defended in court the first-ever attempted firing of a sitting governor. Stephen Miran and Lisa Cook are turning to different branches of government — the Senate and the courts, respectively — so they can each vote at the Fed’s meeting in two weeks(Nick Timiraos)