{"id":19839,"date":"2026-03-10T20:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T20:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/tillis-optimistic-roadblock-to-fed-chair-confirmation-will-be-resolved\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T20:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T20:32:07","slug":"tillis-optimistic-roadblock-to-fed-chair-confirmation-will-be-resolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/tillis-optimistic-roadblock-to-fed-chair-confirmation-will-be-resolved\/","title":{"rendered":"Tillis \u2018optimistic\u2019 roadblock to Fed chair confirmation will be resolved"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/192907\" data-person-id=\"192907\">Thom Tillis<\/a> (R-N.C.) said Tuesday he was hopeful that issues surrounding the Federal Reserve would be resolved, allowing Kevin Warsh\u2019s nomination as central bank chair to move forward.<\/p>\n<p>Tillis acknowledged that Warsh\u2019s nomination might have to sit at the Senate Banking Committee \u201cfor some time,\u201d given the senator\u2019s objections to moving forward with any Fed nominees until a Justice Department probe related to the current chair, Jerome Powell, is concluded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I\u2019m optimistic it\u2019s going to get cleared up,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Tillis was scheduled to meet with Warsh on Tuesday afternoon, one of a series of meetings that the Fed chair nominee is holding now that his paperwork was officially sent to the Senate on Wednesday. Warsh met with Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/51863\" data-person-id=\"51863\">John Barrasso<\/a> (R-Wyo.) last week, according to a post on X from the senator, and he is scheduled to meet with Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/221844\" data-person-id=\"221844\">Mike Rounds <\/a>(R-S.D.) this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve known Kevin since he graduated college,\u201d Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/365070\" data-person-id=\"365070\">Bill Hagerty<\/a> (R-Tenn.) said, when asked if he had met with Warsh. \u201cHe\u2019s one of the people that I\u2019ve always consulted on policy matters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The committee has not yet scheduled a nomination hearing.<\/p>\n<p><i>Jordain Carney contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said Tuesday he was hopeful that issues surrounding the Federal Reserve would be resolved, allowing Kevin Warsh\u2019s nomination as central bank chair to move forward. Tillis acknowledged that Warsh\u2019s nomination might have to sit at the Senate Banking Committee \u201cfor some time,\u201d given the senator\u2019s objections to moving forward with any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19839","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=19839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}