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Trump Weighs Naming Next Fed Chair Early to Undermine Powell

WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

News, Daily News

44K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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A.M. Edition for June 26. The dollar sags on news President Trump could name his pick to replace Fed chair Jerome Powell almost a year before his term ends. WSJ finance editor Alex Frangos explains how markets might view such a move. Plus, a new vaccine panel selected by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. starts re-examining shot advice for kids. And WSJ reporter Chelsey Dulaney details how Ireland’s pharma dominance has put it in Trump’s tariff crosshairs. Luke Vargas hosts.  Sign up for the WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The dollar sags on news that President Trump could name his pick to replace Fed Chair Jerome Powell

0:40.5

almost a year before his term ends. Plus, a new vaccine panel starts reexamining shot advice

0:47.2

for kids, and Ireland's pharma dominance puts it in Trump's tariff crosshairs.

0:52.9

The reason they've been making these drugs

0:54.8

ingredients in Ireland is because it's been cheap to do so. This could definitely undercut the logic

0:59.5

of that. It's Thursday, June 26th. I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal, and here

1:04.8

is the AM edition of What's News. The top headlines and business stories, moving your world today.

1:13.4

We begin with a journal exclusive this morning as we have learned that Donald Trump is considering

1:18.8

naming the next Fed chair early in a bid to undermine current chair Jerome Powell.

1:24.9

Finance editor Alex Frankos told me that Powell has come under increasing pressure

1:28.8

over the central banks take its slow approach to cutting interest rates. Basically, Trump wants

1:34.3

Powell and the Fed board to cut rates and wants them to do it now. And Powell's basically saying

1:39.5

that's not the right thing to do. Inflation's still too high. The economy is still strong enough to withstand the higher

1:45.8

rates. So Trump has been railing against him and calling him names and really putting pressure on

1:51.9

the Fed to cut rate sooner. Alex, according to our reporting, some of the names being considered here

1:57.0

are former Fed Governor Kevin Warsh, National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett,

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