{"id":18649,"date":"2026-02-04T18:22:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/powell-pardon-wouldnt-end-fed-blockade-tillis-says-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T18:22:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:22:24","slug":"powell-pardon-wouldnt-end-fed-blockade-tillis-says-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/powell-pardon-wouldnt-end-fed-blockade-tillis-says-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Powell pardon wouldn\u2019t end Fed blockade, Tillis says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A presidential pardon of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell would not end Sen. Thom Tillis&rsquo; one-man blockade of central bank nominees, the North Carolina Republican said Tuesday. Only the Justice Department resolving its investigation into Powell&rsquo;s Senate testimony on a massive Fed renovation project would suffice&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/02\/03\/congress\/powell-pardon-tillis-blockade-00763054\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A presidential pardon of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell would not end Sen. Thom Tillis&rsquo; one-man blockade of central bank nominees, the North Carolina Republican said Tuesday. Only the Justice Department resolving its investigation into Powell&rsquo;s Senate testimony on a massive Fed renovation project would suffice&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}