Republican US senator backs move to block Fed nominees after Powell indictment threat
BY Reuters | ECONOMIC | 01/12/26 11:10 AM ESTWASHINGTON, Jan 12 (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski on Monday backed ?fellow Republican ?Thom Tillis' plan to ?block President Donald ?Trump's ?Fed nominees after ?the ?Justice Department over the weekend threatened ?to ?indict ?Fed chairman Jerome Powell.
"The stakes are too ?high to look the other way: if the Federal Reserve ?loses ?its independence, the stability ?of our markets and the broader economy will suffer," Murkowski wrote on X. (Reporting ?by Bhargav Acharya and Susan Heavey; ?editing by Scott Malone)
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