{"id":550,"date":"2026-05-11T08:40:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=550"},"modified":"2026-05-11T08:40:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:40:59","slug":"us-senate-expected-to-confirm-kevin-warsh-as-next-federal-reserve-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=550","title":{"rendered":"US Senate expected to confirm Kevin Warsh as next Federal Reserve chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warsh would succeed outgoing Fed chair Jerome Powell as Trump continues his push to influence the US central bank<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US Senate is expected to confirm Kevin Warsh this week as chair of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/federal-reserve\">Federal Reserve<\/a>, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> continues his campaign to influence the world\u2019s most important central bank.<\/p>\n<p>The Fed\u2019s influence over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/useconomy\">economy<\/a> spans from the job market to mortgage rates, and its every move is carefully scrutinized by investors on Wall Street. Warsh\u2019s confirmation comes at a turbulent time for the central bank, which has fallen under intense scrutiny from Trump for not lowering interest rates.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/may\/11\/senate-kevin-warsh-federal-reserve-chair\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warsh would succeed outgoing Fed chair Jerome Powell as Trump continues his push to influence the US central<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}