{"id":71792,"date":"2026-04-15T11:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T16:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/trump-tillis-tiff-deepens-as-president-says-he-quit-concedes-fed-fight-could-doom-new-chair-confirmation\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T11:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T16:55:11","slug":"trump-tillis-tiff-deepens-as-president-says-he-quit-concedes-fed-fight-could-doom-new-chair-confirmation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/trump-tillis-tiff-deepens-as-president-says-he-quit-concedes-fed-fight-could-doom-new-chair-confirmation\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump-Tillis tiff deepens as president says he \u2018quit,\u2019 concedes Fed fight could doom new chair confirmation"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump’s<\/a> pick to lead the Federal Reserve is headed to the Senate next week, but Trump is worried that one Senate Republican could doom the confirmation process.<\/p>\n

Kevin Warsh is scheduled for his confirmation hearing before the Senate Banking Committee after his initial hearing set for this week was canceled. But his odds of moving to the next \u2014 and final \u2014 step of the process are low, given that Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., plans to block him.<\/p>\n

And Trump isn\u2019t happy about it.<\/p>\n

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When asked by Fox Business\u2019 Maria Bartiromo about Warsh\u2019s chances in the Senate, Trump said, “We\u2019re going to have to find out.”<\/p>\n

“He might not, but that\u2019s why Thom Tillis is no longer a senator,” Trump said. “He quit.”<\/p>\n

Tillis, despite announcing plans to retire from Congress at the end of his term this year, is still an active U.S. Senator and would have full voting rights if Warsh’s confirmation comes up for a vote before January 2027.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital reached out to Tillis’ office for comment on the president’s latest comments.<\/p>\n

The North Carolina senator has repeatedly clashed with the Trump administration ever since Tillis bucked his fellow Republicans in their pursuit of steep Medicaid cuts last year during the creation of the “One Big Beautiful Bill.”<\/p>\n

That rebellious streak has continued as the Department of Justice probe into current Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has progressed.<\/p>\n

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Tillis\u2019 beef isn\u2019t with Warsh specifically \u2014 a point he has reiterated on several occasions \u2014 but with the DOJ\u2019s investigation into Powell\u2019s<\/a> testimony last year about the Fed’s renovation of its two historic main buildings on the National Mall.<\/p>\n

“I love the candidate. I won\u2019t spend my five minutes [in committee]<\/a> asking him about his credentials, because he has them,” Tillis said. “I\u2019ll spend five minutes talking about a bogus investigation that\u2019s going to cause me to vote no, unless they end the investigation.”<\/p>\n

“There\u2019s no way to sugarcoat this,” he continued. “There\u2019s one way out of the box, canyon, and they\u2019ve got to decide whether or not they\u2019re going to do it.”<\/p>\n

Prosecutors from U.S. District Attorney Jeanine Pirro\u2019s office reportedly visited<\/a> the Federal Reserve\u2019s headquarters unannounced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., has spoken with the White House about halting the investigation.<\/p>\n

“I think, at some point, they’re gonna have to deal with the committee, they’re gonna have to deal with Tillis,” Thune said. “And I think it’s in everybody’s best interest to wrap up the investigation.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, given the uncertainty surrounding his predecessor, Powell said he would stay on temporarily until a replacement is confirmed. But Trump said he would fire Powell if he wasn’t out by next month.<\/p>\n

Trump charged that Tillis wouldn\u2019t “want the legacy of stopping a great person who could be great.”<\/p>\n

“I think Kevin Warsh is going to be great. He doesn\u2019t want the legacy of having an incompetent guy stay there for longer than is necessary,” Trump said. “I know Thom Tillis. He\u2019s a good man. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s going to hurt \u2014 I know he said what he said, and maybe it\u2019s true, in which case I\u2019ll have to live with it.”<\/p>\n

Tillis is working to make sure that, until the investigation is dropped, there\u2019s no way Warsh makes it out of committee.<\/a><\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any mechanism where he gets reported out of committee, but I\u2019m already working to make sure votes will be held on the floor until we have a definitive answer,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Federal Reserve is headed to the Senate next week, but Trump is worried that one Senate Republican could doom the confirmation process. Kevin Warsh is scheduled for his confirmation hearing before the Senate Banking Committee after his initial hearing set for this week was canceled. But his odds … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}