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The Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time since 2023, a decision that puts chair Kevin Warsh in open conflict with President Donald Trump, who had called on the central bank to lower borrowing costs.
The next policy meeting is where this hiking path either extends or stalls. Fed independence has been contested political territory, and Warsh's decision lands that contest in concrete policy.
Trump's calls to cut rates applied external pressure to an institution that treats its separation from political influence as a structural necessity. Warsh moved the other direction.
Consensus had positioned around the idea that tightening was finished. This print revises that framing.
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