{"id":71901,"date":"2026-04-16T11:55:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/senate-democrats-move-to-stall-trumps-absurd-bid-to-install-new-fed-chair\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T11:55:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:55:26","slug":"senate-democrats-move-to-stall-trumps-absurd-bid-to-install-new-fed-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/senate-democrats-move-to-stall-trumps-absurd-bid-to-install-new-fed-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Democrats move to stall Trump\u2019s \u2018absurd\u2019 bid to install new Fed chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic lawmakers urged Republican leaders to postpone the confirmation hearing of Kevin Warsh<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/democrats\">Democrats<\/a> have moved to stall <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s effort to exert greater control over the US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/federal-reserve\">Federal Reserve<\/a>, condemning the president\u2019s \u201cabsurd\u201d bid to install a new leader of the central bank while it is targeted with criminal investigations.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic lawmakers on the Senate banking committee urged its Republican leadership on Thursday to postpone the planned confirmation hearing for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/apr\/14\/trump-federal-reserve-pick-kevin-warsh\">Kevin Warsh<\/a>, the financial executive and former Fed governor Trump has nominated to replace Jerome Powell as Fed chair.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/apr\/16\/senate-democrats-trump-new-federal-reserve-chair\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic lawmakers urged Republican leaders to postpone the confirmation hearing of Kevin Warsh Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Democrats have moved to stall Donald Trump\u2019s effort to exert greater control over the US Federal Reserve, condemning the president\u2019s \u201cabsurd\u201d bid to install a new leader &#8230; <a title=\"Senate Democrats move to stall Trump\u2019s \u2018absurd\u2019 bid to install new Fed chair\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/senate-democrats-move-to-stall-trumps-absurd-bid-to-install-new-fed-chair\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Senate Democrats move to stall Trump\u2019s \u2018absurd\u2019 bid to install new Fed chair\">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-71901","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\/71901","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=71901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}