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参议院银行委员会将于周三就特朗普提名的美联储主席人选沃什进行投票
凯文·沃什已承诺让美联储“恪守本分”，同时暗示愿与民选官员加强协调
作者：阿曼达·马西亚斯 福克斯新闻
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参议院议员约翰·肯尼迪（共和党，路易斯安那州）在国会听证会上就特朗普政府对联邦储备委员会的独立性问题质询美联储主席提名候选人凯文·沃什。
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参议院银行委员会将于周三就唐纳德·特朗普总统提名的美联储主席人选凯文·沃什进行投票，这是检验白宫对美联储影响力几何的关键考验。
若沃什获得委员会通过，其提名将提交至参议院全院投票，共和党在参议院的微弱多数优势意味着，如果他们希望让特朗普的提名人选执掌美联储未来四年，几乎不能出现叛票情况。
美联储的运作大多不对外公开，但其影响力几乎触及美国经济的每个角落——左右借贷成本、就业增长和通胀，因此沃什的提名结果是决定美联储权力走向的关键时刻。
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凯文·沃什曾是摩根士丹利银行家，2006年成为美联储理事会最年轻的成员。（安德鲁·哈尼克/盖蒂图片社）
沃什有望执掌这家全球最具影响力的中央银行之际，正值局势格外动荡的时刻。美联储正应对持续高企的通胀、伊朗战争引发的经济连锁反应，以及最高法院就美联储理事丽莎·库克一案即将作出的裁决——与此同时，11月中期选举前的政治压力与日俱增。
此前经过数月审查，美国司法部针对美联储主席杰罗姆·鲍威尔的调查宣告终结，参议院银行委员会对沃什提名的投票终于得以推进。
北卡罗来纳州共和党参议员汤姆·蒂利斯此前一直搁置对沃什提名的支持，直至司法部调查结案。特朗普曾反对终结该调查，进一步引发外界对美联储治理与监督的质疑。
此次调查与华盛顿特区美联储总部翻新期间可能存在的资金管理不善有关，尽管鲍威尔的主席任期将于下月结束，调查仍持续展开。
鲍威尔一反往常沉稳的行事风格，称司法部的调查“史无前例”，并将其定性为特朗普向美联储施压降息运动的一部分，同时抨击特朗普此前因他拒绝屈服于降息压力而发表的激烈言论。
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今年3月，鲍威尔告诉记者，他“无意离开美联储”，直至司法部调查“以透明且最终的方式完全了结”。
他的美联储主席任期定于5月15日结束，但他仍可连任两届美联储理事会理事。美联储理事会由7名理事组成，由总统提名、参议院确认，负责制定利率政策并监督美联储的运作。
沃什证词中透露出与美联储现状决裂的一句话
无论鲍威尔是否会在主席任期结束后继续留任美联储，沃什已明确表示将与美联储当前的政策路线决裂。
杰罗姆·鲍威尔主席与美联储理事会成员于2025年6月25日开会。（阿尔·德拉戈/彭博社/盖蒂图片社）
在4月21日面向议员的证词中，沃什承诺将让货币政策“严格独立”，并表示他打算让美联储“恪守本分”，警告美联储已过多介入社会政策。
他还批评了他眼中美联储自满自足的状态，警告大型机构容易陷入惰性，在快速变化的经济中固守“现状”不仅过时，而且危险。
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与此同时，他暗示愿与民选官员加强协调，并在非货币政策事务上与白宫和国会合作——这种做法可能重塑美联储在华盛顿的运作方式。
这种平衡如何拿捏，不仅将决定沃什的任期，还将影响这家对数百万美国人金融生活发挥重大作用的机构的未来走向。
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Warsh faces first big test on Capitol Hill as Trump’s Fed vision comes into focus
April 29, 2026 5:00am EDT / Fox News
Senate Banking Committee set to vote Wednesday on Trump’s Fed pick Warsh
Kevin Warsh has pledged to keep the Fed ‘in its lane’ while signaling openness to closer coordination with elected leaders
By Amanda Macias, Fox News
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The Senate Banking Committee will vote Wednesday on President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh, in a key test of how much influence the White House can exert over the central bank.
If he clears committee, Warsh’s nomination heads to the Senate floor, where Republicans’ narrow majority leaves little room for defections if they want to place Trump’s pick at the helm of the Fed for the next four years.
The Federal Reserve operates largely out of public view, but its influence touches nearly every corner of the U.S. economy — shaping borrowing costs, job growth and inflation, making the outcome of his nomination a key moment for how that power could be steered.
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Kevin Warsh is a former Morgan Stanley banker and became the youngest member of the Fed’s Board of Governors in 2006.(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Warsh’s potential ascent to lead the world’s most powerful central bank comes at a particularly volatile moment. The Federal Reserve is grappling with persisting inflation, economic ripples of the war in Iran and a looming Supreme Court decision over Fed Governor Lisa Cook — all while political pressure builds ahead of the midterm elections in November.
The path to a Senate Banking Committee vote on Warsh’s nomination was finally able to move forward after the Justice Department closed its probe into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell after months of scrutiny.
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., withheld support for moving forward with Warsh’s nomination until the DOJ probe was resolved. Trump pushed back on closing the investigation, further raising questions about governance and oversight at the central bank.
The probe was related to potential mismanagement of funds during renovations at the Federal Reserve’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., and it unfolded despite Powell’s term as chair ending next month.
Powell, breaking from his typically measured approach, called the Justice Department investigation “unprecedented” and framed it as part of Trump’s pressure campaign on the Fed to cut interest rates and his fiery rhetoric against the chairman for his refusal to cave to that pressure.
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In March, Powell told reporters he has “no intention of leaving” the central bank until the DOJ investigation is “fully resolved with transparency and finality.”
His term as Fed chair is set to end May 15, though he is eligible to remain on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors for an additional two-year term. The Federal Reserve Board of Governors, known as the Fed board, consists of seven members nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate, who help set interest rate policy and oversee the central bank’s operations.
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Warsh has already signaled a clear break from the central bank’s current approach regardless of whether Powell remains at the Federal Reserve beyond his chairmanship.
Chairman Jerome Powell and members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors meet on June 25, 2025.(Al Drago/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
In testimony before lawmakers on April 21, Warsh pledged to keep monetary policy “strictly independent” and said he intended to keep the central bank “in its lane,” warning that the Fed has become too involved in social policy.
He has also taken aim at what he sees as a complacent central bank, warning that large institutions are prone to inertia and that clinging to the “status quo” in a fast-moving economy is not just outdated, but dangerous.
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At the same time, he has signaled openness to closer coordination with elected leaders and to work with the White House and Congress on nonmonetary matters — an approach that could reshape how the Fed operates in Washington.
How that balance is struck could define not only Warsh’s tenure, but the future direction of the institution that plays a major role in the financial lives of millions of Americans.
Amanda covers the intersection of business and politics for Fox News Digital.
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