Trump says his administration has started interviews for next Fed chair
BY Reuters | ECONOMIC | 11/18/25 01:10 PM ESTWASHINGTON, Nov 18 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday his administration has started interviews for the position of the next Federal Reserve chairman and reiterated that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent did not want the job.
"We are talking to various people," Trump said in the Oval Office.
"I'd love to get the guy currently in there out... but people are holding me back," he said, referring to Fed's Jerome Powell. (Reporting by Steve Holland, writing by Bhargav Acharya; editing by Costas Pitas)
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