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6月17日（路透社）——在这位新任央行行长结束首次利率制定会议并决定维持利率不变，且公布的预测显示近半数美国央行官员认为今年需要加息后，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普周三对美联储主席凯文·沃什表示了信心。
“没问题，随便吧，”特朗普在法国被问及对美联储维持利率不变的决定有何看法时说道。
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特朗普曾多次抨击沃什的前任杰罗姆·鲍威尔，称其为蠢货、笨蛋，还有诸多其他辱骂性称呼，指责他不降息。特朗普称，央行应当降低借贷成本，以助力房地产市场、提振经济并降低政府借贷成本。
但在周三，特朗普并未对沃什使用此类言论，他曾表示沃什看起来就像是专门为这个角色量身定制的。
“有可能发生，”被问及加息可能性时特朗普说道。“这很难让人相信。加息只会让国家发展受阻，这太、太反常了。但目前在美联储这边有个非常优秀的人选，所以我会遵循他的意愿。”
与此同时，沃什在决议公布后的新闻发布会上，拒绝透露利率可能走向。
他也拒绝透露自上月执掌美联储以来是否与总统有过交谈，但他确实表示已与财政部长斯科特·贝森特会面多次。
“关于总统，我无可奉告，”沃什说道。“至于财长，他一直在发我们共进早餐的照片，所以……我认为我无法否认，央行的悠久传统是美联储主席与财长每周会面。目前我们已经完成了三次这样的会面。相信他本周在海外，所以这次将是常规惯例的例外。”
沃什在确认听证会上对议员们表示，计划在非货币政策事务上与本届政府密切合作。
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Warsh Fed holds rates steady. Trump says ‘It’s all right. Whatever.’
2026-06-17 9:44 PM UTC / Reuters
U.S. President Donald Trump greets the new Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh after he was sworn in by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in the East Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 22, 2026. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
[1/2]U.S. President Donald Trump greets the new Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh after he was sworn in by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in the East Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 22, 2026. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst Purchase Licensing Rights
June 17 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Wednesday expressed confidence in Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh after the new central bank chief concluded his first rate-setting meeting with a decision to leave interest rates unchanged and published projections that showed nearly half of U.S. central bankers feel a rate hike will be needed this year.
“It’s all right. Whatever,” Trump said in France, when asked what he felt about the Fed’s decision to hold interest rates steady.
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Trump had repeatedly railed at Warsh’s predecessor, Jerome Powell, calling him a moron and a knucklehead, among many other names, for not cutting rates. Trump says that the central bank ought to lower borrowing costs to help the housing market, boost the economy, and reduce the cost of the government borrowing.
But on Wednesday, Trump had no such words for Warsh, whom he has said looks like he comes out of central casting for the part.
“It could happen,” Trump said, when asked about the possibility of a rate hike. “It’s hard to believe. It just keeps the country down and it’s so, it’s so, unusual. But we have a very good guy over there right now so I’m guided by what he wants.”
Meanwhile, Warsh, at a press conference following the decision, declined to say anything about where rates may need to head.
He also declined to say whether he had spoken with the president since taking the helm at the Fed last month, though he did say he had met several times with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
“So on the president, I don’t have anything for you,” Warsh said. “With respect to the Treasury secretary, he has been posting pictures of our breakfast, so … I don’t think I can deny that the long tradition at the central bank is that the Fed chairman and the Treasury secretary meet weekly. I think we’ve pulled off three of those so far. Believe he’s overseas this week, so this will be the exception of the rule.”
Warsh told lawmakers at his confirmation hearing that he planned to cooperate closely with the administration on non-monetary policy matters.
Reporting by Dan Burns and Michael S. Derby, Steve Holland, Ann Saphir, Editing by Franklin Paul and Andrea Ricci
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