Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What is the current status of the partial government shutdown?
A partial government shutdown is underway even as the Senate Friday evening passed a government spending package as the White House continues to negotiate with Democrats on placing new limits on immigration raids that have provoked a national outcry.
Several government agencies are still headed for at least a short lapse in funding, with House Speaker Mike Johnson not planning to hold a vote on the legislation until Monday. Funding for those agencies, which include the Treasury, Defense, Homeland Security, Transportation, Health and Human Services and Labor Departments, expired at midnight.
The partial government shutdown is not expected to have widespread effects on government operations if it is resolved by early next week. Kevin Warsh waited almost a decade before finally clinching President Trump's nomination to be chair of the Federal Reserve. He won't need to wait as long before his first big test in the job.
Having won the race with the promise of regime change of the Fed, suggesting he would make significant changes, Warsh has pledged to shrink the Fed's balance sheet and argued that a productivity boom driven by artificial intelligence will keep inflation low. While that prognosis was enough to convince Trump, his Fed pick will now need to convince fellow policymakers and investors.
Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren has concerns about the nomination. Donald Trump has made clear he does not want an independent Fed. He wants a Fed that acts like a sock puppet for him. He has threatened to fire Jerome Powell. He started a bogus investigation, a bogus investigation of another member of the Fed, Lisa Cook.
And he has said openly he will not name anyone to be Fed chair who does not agree with Donald Trump. Donald Trump wants to be calling the shots. Federal Reserve Governor Stephen Myron tells Bloomberg News that Warsh will prove effective in his leadership of the Fed's Monetary Policy Committee.
Chairman-designate Warsh has a long and illustrious career in history as a very insightful thinker on monetary policy. I think he's a fantastic pick from the president. I think he's got enormous credibility. I think he's got enormous gravitas. I think he's got enormous respect from financial markets, from economists, from everyone. I think he's going to do just a knockout job.
French Hill, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, tells Bloomberg the Justice Department investigation of Federal Reserve Chairman Jay Powell stands in the way of a speedy confirmation of Kevin Warsh. I think that's a distraction. I don't think that's a topic that deserves a DOJ investigation.
It's going to potentially delay getting his choice confirmed in the Senate and could delay President Trump's own macroeconomic agenda. Gold suffered its biggest slide in four decades and silver posted a record intraday decline and a stark reversal of the rally that lifted prices to all-time highs.
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