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Powell Picks Up an Endorsement From a Senior House Democrat

Jerome Powell

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House Budget Chair John Yarmuth of Kentucky became the latest Democrat to back a second term for Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, countering a public campaign by some fellow progressives to pressure President Joe Biden to name someone else to head the central bank.