Do you TRULY believe the federal government has zero control over the supposedly private Federal Reserve Bank?
Many time politicians implement schemes that are designed to make it LOOK like they are not the cause of things the voters would dislike, and make it SEEM as though there's some rogue unnamed and unaccountable entity pulling the strings. "Don't get mad at ME", they tell the voters, when with a single vote on the House, one in the Senate, and the stroke of a Presidential pen entire systems, agencies, etc could simply be eliminated. This is all tied up in one of the biggest scams in Washington DC: almost NOBODY writes, or will vote for, single-issue bills. Everybody claims to want Social Security funded, and it could easily be done...write a bill to fully fund Social Security for the next decade with no other issue in the bill, pass it in the House where EVERYBODY wants it, pass it in the Senate where EVERYBODY wants it, and get the President to sign it (they ALL insist the support it) yet NOBODY will do this. Why not? Because it would take Social Security off the table for the next ten years and nobody would be able to use the supposed peril of the program in campaign ads and nobody would be able to tie the funding of all sorts of unpopular stuff to it every year.
Nearly every bill in congress is loaded with highly unpopular stuff - DELIBERATELY and in a bi-partisan manner. When a conservative voter asks his rep why he voted for some hated thing, the politician says "I had no choice... the bill also contained this other vital thing we need". When a liberal voter asks her rep why she voted for some hated thing, the politician says "I had no choice... the bill also contained this other vital thing we need". It's a SCAM. Most bills, in fact are never intended to become law. Some Republican will propose some abortion bill he KNOWS the Democrats will kill in the Senate or the White House and most Republicans will vote for it, and special interest groups will score that as a "pro-life" or conservative vote, and the politician will get a great conservative rating - but on one issue, like the budget, he can vote for massive spending and tax hikes and his conservative rating will survive the one vote. Some Democrat will propose some gun control bill he KNOWS the Republicans will kill in the Senate or the White House and most Democrats will vote for it, and special interest groups will score that as a progressive or liberal vote, and the politician will get a great liberal rating - but on one of the few things that WILL become law, that Democrat can vote with the GOP and yet maintain that "progressive" rating. These turkeys pass a handful of actual bills per year into law, but propose and vote on (and get scored on) HUNDREDS.
Here's the thing: In one single day the federal government of the USA could put a single-subject, single-page bill through the House, the Senate, and plop it onto the Presidential desk for signature, to eliminate the Federal Reserve and return to a Gold Standard, or to take over the Federal Reserve and put it under the President (or like Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, under Congressional oversight), but it suits the politicians JUST FINE to have the plausible deniability provided by the idea that the Fed is "private". All manner of economic nastiness can be inflicted upon the economy and the politicians will blame the Fed. Or the Fed can hold rates at near zero for an entire Presidency (like they did for all 8 years of Obama) and nobody can say that the President and his team are artificially goosing the economy to make him popular - ooooh, no, it's those mysterious operators over there at that Fed thingy!
If the Fed were doing something that endangered the nation and the politicians were truly worried and wanted control, and if they passed a law ending the Fed and the people at the Fed resisted, have NO DOUBT that the federal government would pull out the guns and shut them down in a heartbeat.
The fact that politicians and pundits keep telling you something patently false, over and over and over again, just does not make it so. Don't let them talk you into thinking the US government, with all its guns and bombs and cops and soldiers and its courts and jails and its founding documents which provide for no Fed, is somehow the powerless victim of some goofball conspiracy of bankers. Everything those bankers have only has value because Government does not take it from them, and all the power they seem to have is simply because government chooses to let them seem to have that power and chooses to let them live and walk around in public. Banks do not actually have power, governments with guns and cops and soldiers have actual hard power, power that can be exercised faster than bankers can write documents.