(CNN) President Donald Trump held an unannounced meeting with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell at the White House residence on Monday, the first such meeting between the President and the nation's top monetary policymaker since an informal dinner last February.

Over the past year, Trump has routinely attacked Powell, a former investment banker, pressuring him to slash interest rates -- moves that have broken previous presidential precedent, which called for keeping the world's most powerful central bank out of politics.

"Just finished a very good & cordial meeting at the White House with Jay Powell of the Federal Reserve. Everything was discused including interest rates, negative interest, low inflation, easing, Dollar strength & its effect on manufacturing, trade with China, E.U. & others, etc.," Trump tweeted following the meeting.

The Federal Reserve said in a statement released shortly before Trump's tweet that the meeting, which also included Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, came at the President's invitation.

The White House readout included a more expansive list of topics discussed than the Fed's, including negative interest rates and trade policy with the China and the European Union. The Fed explicitly noted that Powell had refrained from discussing what policymakers planned to do at upcoming meetings, distancing itself from any suggestion of political interference.

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