(Reuters) – The Federal Reserve ought to stay impartial, Trump’s choose to be united state Treasury Secretary knowledgeable a Senate panel on Thursday.
“I think on monetary policy decisions, the FOMC should be independent,” Scott Bessent knowledgeable the united state Senate Finance Committee, describing the Fed’s monetary policysetting panel, the Federal Open Market Committee.
“President Trump is going to make his views known,” Bessent said, equally as legislators do after they differ with what the Fed performs with charges of curiosity, but the idea that Trump thinks he should have affect over Fed’s policymaking by remaining within the area is “highly inaccurate.”
(Reporting by Bo Erickson, David Lawder, Andrea Shalal, Ann Saphir)
