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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell renewed his pushback towards Elon Musk’s claims that the Fed is overstaffed throughout a congressional listening to Tuesday.
Powell was testifying earlier than the Senate Banking Committee for a semiannual replace on financial coverage and the economic system and was requested by Sen. Andy Kim, D-N.J., about whether or not the central financial institution is overstaffed.
“No, I would say that, you know, overworked maybe, not overstaffed. Everybody at the Fed works really hard,” Powell stated.
Musk just lately stated the Federal Reserve is “absurdly overstaffed” and instructed the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) may set its sights on an audit of the Fed. He had beforehand criticized the Fed’s financial coverage choices.
ELON MUSK WARNS FEDERAL RESERVE MAY FACE DOGE AUDIT
Fed Chair Jerome Powell stated the Fed’s workforce is “overworked,” not “overstaffed.” (Seth Herald/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photos / Getty Photos)
Powell beforehand stated the Fed goes by means of a cautious budgeting course of to find out its staffing ranges. At Tuesday’s listening to, he additionally mentioned the function performed by the Federal Reserve’s workforce within the early levels of the COVID pandemic and the way it was reliant on the information of longtime staff.
“When the pandemic hit kind of out of the blue and economies all over the world are shutting down, the U.S. Treasury market is stopping to function, companies can’t roll over their commercial paper, economists are writing about a depression. People at the Fed who went through the global financial crisis 10 years before stepped forward to say, ‘We got this,’” Powell defined.
“We know what to do. Here’s what we do with money market funds, here’s what we do with companies that can’t get any financing. The markets were closed, and companies were having maturing debt that they had to roll over.”
POWELL PUSHES BACK ON MUSK’S CLAIM FED IS ‘ABSURDLY OVERSTAFFED’
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who’s main DOGE, has criticized the Fed. (Saul Loeb/Pool/AFP by way of Getty Photos / Getty Photos)
“The people who knew what to do in that pretty dire emergency were working at the Federal Reserve and at other places, but I will tell you, it was impressive,” he added. “Really, our work during that acute phase of the crisis was very successful, and it’s entirely due to the knowledge base that resides with career people at the Fed.”
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After testifying earlier than the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday, Powell is scheduled to look earlier than the Home Monetary Providers Committee Wednesday to ship his semiannual replace on financial coverage and the economic system to Home lawmakers.
