2026年3月4日 下午5:09 UTC / 路透社 / 安·萨菲尔报道
2017年5月8日，美国纽约市，胡佛研究所经济学研究员、斯坦福大学商学院讲师凯文·沃什在 Sohn 投资会议上发言。 路透社/布伦丹·麦克德米德/资料图片 [购买授权，新标签页打开]
- 摘要
- 在司法部调查鲍威尔期间，参议员蒂利斯反对美联储提名
- 经济数据和伊朗冲突使降息野心复杂化
- 特朗普长期寻求降息，批评美联储主席鲍威尔
3月4日（路透社）- 白宫表示，总统唐纳德·特朗普周三正式提名前美联储理事凯文·沃什（Kevin Warsh）为美国央行下一任主席，使总统距离任命一位倾向降息的美联储主席更近一步。
但沃什重返美联储的道路，以及一旦被确认为美联储主席后实施特朗普希望的降息政策，都面临巨大障碍。
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根据白宫通知，沃什将在杰罗姆·鲍威尔的领导任期于5月15日结束后接任美联储主席职位，目前该职位由美联储理事斯蒂芬·米拉恩（Stephen Miran）担任。米拉恩同样是特朗普任命的官员，自去年9月加入美联储以来一直是降息的主要倡导者。
特朗普曾多次公开抨击鲍威尔未能迅速或大幅降息，并表示支持降低借贷成本将是任何美联储主席候选人的必要条件。沃什表示，他认为人工智能推动的生产率增长为在不引发通胀的情况下降息创造了空间。
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预计由共和党控制的参议院银行委员会将推进确认听证会，其共和党成员表示认为沃什资质出众，是该职位的理想人选。
然而，其中一名共和党参议员汤姆·蒂利斯（Thom Tillis）承诺，只要司法部对鲍威尔去年夏天就美联储在华盛顿的大楼翻新工程向委员会作证的调查仍在进行中，他就会阻挠任何美联储提名。
蒂利斯称，这项调查是荒谬的，等同于对美联储政治独立性的威胁，而美联储的政治独立性被广泛认为是其控制通胀和引导经济走向健康的关键。如果没有蒂利斯的支持，委员会中微弱的共和党多数派无法推翻民主党的统一反对。
“凯文·沃什不过是唐纳德·特朗普在美联储的傀儡，
Trump sends Fed chair Warsh nomination to Senate
March 4, 2026 5:09 PM UTC / Reuters / By Ann Saphir
Kevin Warsh, Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution and lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, speaks during the Sohn Investment Conference in New York City, U.S., May 8, 2017. REUTERS/Brendan Mcdermid/File Photo [Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab]
- Summary
- Senator Tillis opposes Fed nomination amid DOJ probe of Powell
- Economic data and Iran conflict complicate rate cut ambitions
- Trump has long sought rate cuts, criticized Fed chair Powell
March 4 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Wednesday officially nominated former Federal Reserve Governor Kevin Warsh to be the U.S. central bank’s next chair, the White House said, putting the president one step closer to installing a rate-cut-friendly Fed chief.
But there are big hurdles both to Warsh’s path back to the Fed and, once confirmed as Fed chair, his way forward to delivering the rate cuts Trump wants.
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Warsh, who would take over from Jerome Powell after his leadership term ends on May 15, would occupy the seat currently held by Fed Governor Stephen Miran, the White House notice shows. Miran, also a Trump appointee, has been a leading advocate for interest-rate cuts since joining the Fed in September.
Trump, who frequently and publicly rails against Powell for not cutting rates quickly or deeply enough, had said he would make support for lower borrowing costs a condition for any Fed chair candidate. Warsh has indicated that he feels productivity growth driven by artificial intelligence creates an opening for reducing interest rates without stoking inflation.
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The Republican-controlled Senate Banking Committee is expected to move forward with a confirmation hearing, and its Republican members have said they see Warsh as well qualified and a good pick for the job.
One of them, however, Republican Senator Thom Tillis, has promised to block any Fed nomination as long as a Department of Justice investigation into Powell regarding his testimony to the panel last summer about central bank building renovations in Washington remains open.
Tillis says the probe is frivolous and amounts to a threat to the Fed’s political independence, widely considered essential to its ability to keep inflation under control and steer the economy to a healthy footing. Without Tillis’ vote, the committee’s slim Republican majority does not have the power to override unified Democratic opposition.
“Kevin Warsh would be nothing more than Donald Trump’s sock puppet at the Fed,
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