{"id":8921,"date":"2026-05-13T20:38:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=8921"},"modified":"2026-05-13T20:38:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:38:30","slug":"trumps-pick-to-replace-fed-chair-powell-clears-key-senate-hurdle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=8921","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Pick to Replace Fed Chair Powell Clears Key Senate Hurdle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Warsh\u2019s return to the Federal Reserve isn\u2019t a routine homecoming; it\u2019s the centerpiece of a calculated struggle over who truly controls America\u2019s money. Backed by Trump and embraced by allies as a \u201cstable reformer,\u201d Warsh arrives with both establishment credentials and a clear mandate to challenge the status quo on rates, regulation, and the Fed\u2019s swollen balance sheet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>His pledge of independence before senators \u2014 insisting Trump never asked him to \u201cfix\u201d interest rates \u2014 sets up a tense, high\u2011stakes experiment. Can a president\u2019s favored adviser really stay above politics while holding a 14\u2011year seat that outlasts multiple administrations? With Powell weakened by a criminal investigation and Trump openly musing about Fort Knox and the nation\u2019s gold, Warsh\u2019s every move will be read as a signal: is the Fed still the guardrail, or has it become the battleground?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Kevin Warsh\u2019s return to the Federal Reserve isn\u2019t a routine homecoming; it\u2019s the centerpiece of a calculated struggle over who truly controls America\u2019s money. Backed by Trump and embraced &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8923,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8921\/revisions\/8923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}