凯文·沃什（Kevin Warsh）有望执掌全球最具影响力的央行，此时美联储正处于动荡时刻
作者：阿曼达·马西亚斯（Amanda Macias）、亚历克斯·米勒（Alex Miller）
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发布时间：2026年3月10日 美国东部时间下午2:11
美国总统唐纳德·特朗普提名的美联储主席候选人凯文·沃什（Kevin Warsh）将于周二与北卡罗来纳州共和党参议员汤姆·蒂利斯（Sen. Thom Tillis）会面。此前，由于共和党对美联储主席杰罗姆·鲍威尔（Jerome Powell）涉及的刑事调查存在担忧，蒂利斯一直阻挠其提名进程。
蒂利斯告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，他支持特朗普今年1月提名的沃什，但表示在他能够投票推进提名之前，需要先解决对鲍威尔的调查问题。
1月11日，鲍威尔证实司法部已就其关于华盛顿特区国家广场美联储两座历史主楼翻新工程的国会证词展开刑事调查。
[特朗普提名凯文·沃什接替杰罗姆·鲍威尔出任美联储主席]
凯文·沃什曾是特朗普2017年替换美联储主席珍妮特·耶伦（Janet Yellen）的主要候选人之一。不过，特朗普最终选择了鲍威尔担任该职务。（Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg via Getty Images）
“我没什么疑问。我非常欣赏[沃什]，我希望能解决对鲍威尔的调查问题，这样我就能投票支持他。”蒂利斯告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
“我对他完全没有意见。我很期待见到他，因为正如我所说，我一直是他的支持者。”他补充道。
蒂利斯誓言在特朗普政府结束对鲍威尔的刑事调查之前，将阻挠任何美联储提名。作为参议院银行委员会成员，他的阻挠尤其关键。要推翻这一阻挠，需要在参议院进行程序性投票，这需要60票支持，被普遍认为希望渺茫。
特朗普提名沃什接替鲍威尔，而鲍威尔的主席任期将于5月结束，但他必须首先获得参议院的简单多数确认——这一过程通常从参议院银行委员会的听证会和投票开始。
[特朗普的美联储提名人凯文·沃什因鲍威尔调查持续受阻]
参议员汤姆·蒂利斯是参议院银行委员会成员，该委员会必须先通过美联储提名人选，才能提交参议院全体表决。（Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images）
沃什有望执掌全球最具影响力的央行，而此时美联储正处于动荡时期。
由于司法部对鲍威尔展开刑事调查，最高法院正在考虑限制美联储独立性，以及生活成本不断上升的压力考验特朗普的经济议程，下一任美联储主席的任命变得愈发关键。
原本始于利率政策的紧张局势已演变为更广泛的对抗，这标志着鲍威尔领导美联储八年任期内最具挑战性的时期之一。
鲍威尔在视频声明中称司法部调查“史无前例”，并表示这是特朗普持续对央行威胁的又一例证。在与顾问私下磋商数日后，他发表了异常公开的回应，这与他一贯谨慎的行事风格大相径庭。
[特朗普对决美联储：冲突如何走向未知领域]
鲍威尔被广泛认为是美国现代史上经受过最严峻危机考验的美联储主席之一。他在进入乔治·H·W·布什政府公共服务之前，曾在纽约从事律师和投资银行家工作。
他于2012年加入美联储理事会，并于2017年由特朗普提名领导央行。
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2025年7月24日，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普在华盛顿特区参观美联储时与美联储主席杰罗姆·鲍威尔交谈。（Daniel Torok/Official White House Photo）
与鲍威尔类似，沃什并非科班出身的经济学家。相反，他拥有法律和金融背景，这塑造了他对美联储的看法。
1992年，他获得斯坦福大学公共政策学士学位，1995年获得哈佛大学法学学位。他曾在摩根士丹利（Morgan Stanley）工作，并于35岁时（2006年）成为美联储董事会史上最年轻成员。
尽管他2011年离职，但在2008年金融危机期间，他被广泛认为是美联储与华尔街的关键联络人。他此前曾在布什政府担任总统经济政策特别助理和国家经济委员会执行秘书。
沃什曾是特朗普2017年替换美联储主席珍妮特·耶伦的主要候选人之一。不过，特朗普最终任命了鲍威尔。
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Trump’s pick to lead the Federal Reserve meets GOP senator holding up his confirmation
Kevin Warsh’s potential ascent to lead the world’s most powerful central bank comes at turbulent moment for Fed
By Amanda Macias, Alex Miller
Fox News
Published March 10, 2026 2:11pm EDT
President Donald Trump’s Federal Reserve chair nominee, Kevin Warsh, will meet Tuesday with Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., the Republican who has been holding up his nomination amid GOP concerns tied to a criminal probe involving Fed Chair Jerome Powell.
Tillis told Fox News Digital he supports Warsh, whom Trump tapped in January, but said he wants the Powell investigation resolved before he can vote to move the nomination forward.
On Jan. 11, Powell confirmed that the Justice Department had opened a criminal investigation into his congressional testimony related to the renovation of the Federal Reserve’s two historic main buildings on Washington, D.C.’s National Mall.
[TRUMP NOMINATES KEVIN WARSH TO SUCCEED JEROME POWELL AS FEDERAL RESERVE CHAIR]
Kevin Warsh was among Trump’s leading candidates to replace Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen in 2017. However, Trump ultimately picked Powell for the role.(Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“I have very few questions. I’m a real fan of [Warsh] and I’m hoping we can get disposed of the Powell investigation, so I’d be in a position to vote for him,” Tillis told Fox News Digital.
“I have no problems at all with him. I’m looking forward to meeting him, because, like I said, I’ve been a fan,” he added.
Tillis has vowed to block any Federal Reserve nominee until the Trump administration concludes its criminal probe involving Powell. As a member of the Senate Banking Committee, his hold is especially consequential. Overriding it would require a discharge vote on the Senate floor, an extraordinary step that needs 60 votes and is widely seen as a long shot.
Trump tapped Warsh to succeed Powell, whose term as chair ends in May, but he must first win Senate confirmation by a simple majority — a process that typically starts with a hearing and vote in the Senate Banking Committee.
[TRUMP’S FED PICK KEVIN WARSH FACES UNEXPECTED ROADBLOCK OVER ONGOING POWELL PROBE]
Sen. Thom Tillis sits on the Senate Banking Committee, which must advance Fed nominees before the full Senate can confirm them.(Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
Warsh’s potential ascent to the top of the world’s most powerful central bank comes at a turbulent moment for the Federal Reserve.
With the Justice Department conducting a criminal probe involving Powell, the Supreme Court weighing limits on the Fed’s independence and rising cost-of-living pressures testing Trump’s economic agenda, the stakes for the next chair are intensifying.
What began as tension over interest-rate policy has spiraled into a broader confrontation, marking one of the most challenging stretches of Powell’s eight-year tenure leading the Fed.
Powell called the DOJ investigation “unprecedented” in a video statement and another example of what he described as Trump’s ongoing threats lobbed at the central bank. His unusually public response, after days of private consultation with advisors, marked a sharp departure from his typically measured approach.
[TRUMP VS THE FEDERAL RESERVE: HOW THE CLASH REACHED UNCHARTED TERRITORY]
Powell, widely viewed as one of the most crisis-tested Federal Reserve chairs in modern U.S. history, built his career as a lawyer and investment banker in New York before entering public service in the administration of President George H.W. Bush.
He joined the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors in 2012 and was nominated by Trump to lead the central bank in 2017.
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President Donald Trump speaks to Fed Chair Jerome Powell during a tour of the Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C., on July 24, 2025.(Daniel Torok/Official White House Photo)
Like Powell, Warsh is not an economist by training. Instead, he brings a background in law and finance that has shaped his views on the Federal Reserve.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in public policy from Stanford University in 1992 and a law degree from Harvard in 1995. He built his career at Morgan Stanley and, at 35, became the youngest person to serve on the Fed’s board in 2006.
Though he stepped down in 2011, he was widely recognized as the Fed’s key liaison to Wall Street during the 2008 financial crisis. He previously worked in the Bush administration as a special assistant to the president for economic policy and executive secretary at the National Economic Council.
Warsh was among Trump’s leading candidates to replace Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen in 2017. However, Trump ultimately appointed Powell to the role.
Amanda covers the intersection of business and politics for Fox News Digital.
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