2026年4月26日 美国东部时间下午1:48 / 路透社
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2026年4月21日，美国华盛顿国会山，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普提名的下一任美联储主席人选凯文·沃什的参议院银行委员会确认听证会当天，北卡罗来纳州联邦参议员汤姆·蒂利斯（共和党）接受媒体采访。路透社/伊芙琳·霍克斯坦
- 内容摘要
- 蒂利斯告诉美国全国广播公司，他将允许沃什的提名确认程序推进
- 蒂利斯的决定为沃什在鲍威尔任期于5月15日结束前获得确认扫清了道路
- 美国司法部于周五撤销了针对美联储主席杰罗姆·鲍威尔的刑事调查
4月26日（路透社）——共和党联邦参议员汤姆·蒂利斯周日表示，在司法部于周五撤销对美联储主席杰罗姆·鲍威尔的调查后，他将允许参议院推进对美联储主席提名人选凯文·沃什的确认程序。蒂利斯此前将该调查视为对美联储政治独立性的威胁。
蒂利斯曾誓言，只要该调查仍在进行，就会阻挠任何美联储提名人选的确认程序。
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“我已准备好推进沃什先生的提名确认程序，”代表北卡罗来纳州的蒂利斯在接受美国全国广播公司《与媒体见面》节目采访时表示，“我认为他会成为一位出色的美联储主席。”
这一决定为沃什结束了长达数月的悬而未决状态，并扫清了他在5月15日鲍威尔的任期结束前获得参议院确认的道路。
鲍威尔于1月披露，司法部已就他管理华盛顿两座美联储大楼25亿美元翻新工程的事宜启动刑事调查。在周日晚间发布的一段措辞严厉的视频中，鲍威尔称这是恐吓行为，是特朗普政府试图向美联储施压以降息的一部分。
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今年3月，一名联邦法官驳回了司法部的传票，认定其签发目的不当，旨在迫使鲍威尔降息或辞职。美国检察官珍妮娜·皮尔罗曾表示将提起上诉，就在上周还公开暗示将继续推进调查。
然而，她周五在X平台上宣布将终止调查，并将交由美联储总监察长接手——后者对该翻新工程的调查已开展数月。
蒂利斯称，他已从司法部获得保证，该案件“已完全彻底了结”，上诉程序不会被用于重启调查。
他在采访后于X平台发布的帖文中补充道，总监察长的调查“方式恰当”。
“我相信该调查将得到彻底且专业的开展，”他说道。
蒂利斯的反对从未针对沃什本人，他在周二的确认听证会上曾评价沃什拥有“无可挑剔”的资质。
获得蒂利斯支持后，确认程序可期
沃什曾于2006年至2011年担任美联储理事，他承诺将全面改革美联储的货币政策框架，并在非货币政策事务上加强与财政部及其他政府部门的合作。
他在听证会上告诉议员们，特朗普并未要求他承诺降息，但他也表示并不担心关税推高通胀，并暗示美联储政策制定者可能使用了高估价格压力的通胀衡量指标。
有了蒂利斯的支持，参议院银行委员会的共和党人现在拥有了所需的多数席位，可以击败民主党人的统一反对，将沃什的提名提交至全院参议院，而外界预计共和党人将确认他的提名。
距离鲍威尔的任期结束仅剩约三周时间，其中还包含一段参议院休会期，时间十分紧迫。参议院此前仅有一次在不到三周的时间内确认了美联储提名人选。
鲍威尔曾表示，如果沃什无法在5月15日前获得确认，他将担任临时主席。
沃什就任美联储主席后，鲍威尔仍可继续担任美联储理事，其理事任期还有一年半。
“在调查得到充分、透明且最终的了结之前，我无意离开理事会，”鲍威尔上月说道。
皮尔罗周五表示，她可能会根据总监察长的调查结果重启调查。参议院民主党人马萨诸塞州议员伊丽莎白·沃伦和伊利诺伊州议员迪克·德宾周五称，这一声明是对“未来针对鲍威尔或其他任何美联储理事的无根据调查”的威胁。
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US Senator Tillis says he’s ready to advance confirmation of Warsh as Fed chair
2026-04-26 1:48 PM UTC / Reuters
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U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) speaks to the media, on the day of a Senate Banking Committee confirmation hearing for Kevin Warsh, U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee to be next chair of the Federal Reserve, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 21, 2026. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
- Summary
- Tillis tells NBC he will allow Warsh’s confirmation to proceed
- Tillis’ decision clears path for Warsh’s confirmation before Powell’s term ends May 15
- Justice Department dropped criminal probe into Chair Jerome Powell on Friday
April 26 (Reuters) – Republican Senator Thom Tillis on Sunday said he would allow Senate confirmation of Federal Reserve chair nominee Kevin Warsh to go forward after the Department of Justice on Friday dropped an investigation into Fed Chair Jerome Powell that Tillis viewed as a threat to the central bank’s political independence.
Tillis had vowed to block any Fed nominee from confirmation as long as the probe remained open.
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“I am prepared to move on with the confirmation of Mr. Warsh,” Tillis, who represents North Carolina, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “I think he’s going to be a great Fed chair.”
The decision ends months of limbo for Warsh and clears a path for his Senate confirmation by May 15, when Powell’s leadership term ends.
Powell disclosed in January that the DOJ had opened a criminal investigation into his management of a $2.5 billion renovation of two Fed buildings in Washington. In a blunt video released on a Sunday evening, Powell called it intimidation and part of the Trump administration’s attempts to pressure the Fed into cutting interest rates.
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A federal judge in March blocked the DOJ’s subpoenas, finding they were issued for the improper purpose of getting Powell to lower rates or resign. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said she would appeal and just last week signaled publicly she would press on with the investigation.
On Friday, however, she said on X that she was ending it and would ask the Fed’s own inspector general, already months into its own review of the renovations, to take over.
Tillis said he received assurances from the Justice Department that the case was “completely and fully settled” and that the appeal would not be used to reopen the investigation.
He added in a post on X following the interview that the inspector general probe was “appropriate.”
“I have confidence it will be conducted thoroughly and professionally,” he said.
Tillis’ objections had never been about Warsh himself, whom he described at his confirmation hearing on Tuesday as having “impeccable” credentials.
CONFIRMATION EXPECTED WITH TILLIS SUPPORT
Warsh, a Fed governor from 2006 to 2011, has promised to overhaul the Fed’s approach to monetary policy and to cooperate more closely on non-monetary policy matters with the Treasury and other parts of government.
He told lawmakers at his hearing that Trump did not try to get him to promise to lower interest rates, though he also said he was not worried that tariffs were contributing to inflation, and suggested that Fed policymakers may be using measures of inflation that overestimate price pressures.
With Tillis’ support, the Senate Banking Committee’s Republicans now have the majority they need to outvote unified Democratic opposition and advance Warsh’s nomination to the full Senate, where Republicans are expected to confirm him.
With about three weeks to go before Powell’s chair term ends, during one of which the Senate is scheduled to be on recess, the timeline is tight. The Senate has only once before confirmed a Fed nominee in less than three weeks.
Powell has said he would serve as temporary chair should Warsh not be confirmed before May 15.
Once Warsh is installed as Fed chair, Powell may still stay on as a governor under a term that runs for another year and a half.
“I have no intention of leaving the Board until the investigation is well and truly over, with transparency and finality,” Powell said last month.
Pirro said on Friday that she may resume her investigation depending on the inspector general’s findings. Senate Democrats Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Dick Durbin of Illinois on Friday called that statement a threat of “future baseless investigations” into Powell or any other Fed governor.
Reporting by Nichola Groom in San Marino, California and Ryan Patrick Jones in Toronto; Editing by Katharine Jackson and Bill Berkrot
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