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Powell pushes again on Musk’s declare Fed is ‘absurdly overstaffed’

Editorial Board Published January 29, 2025
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Wharton Faculty finance professor emeritus Jeremy Siegel provides his tackle the Federal Reserve’s choice to go away charges unchanged on ‘The Claman Countdown.’

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell pushed again Wednesday on billionaire Elon Musk’s declare the central financial institution is bloated when he was requested it them throughout a press convention.

Elon Musk, the chief of President Donald Trump’s Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE), wrote in a submit on X final month, “The Fed is absurdly overstaffed.”

Powell was requested about these remarks by FOX Enterprise’ Edward Lawrence at a press convention after the central financial institution’s announcement it might maintain rates of interest regular.

“We run a very careful budget process where we’re fully aware. We owe that to the public, and we believe we do that. I’ve got no further comment on that, thanks,” Powell responded.

FEDERAL RESERVE HOLDS INTEREST RATES STEADY AMID INFLATION UNCERTAINTY

Fed Chair Jerome Powell mentioned the central financial institution has a cautious budgeting course of. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)

Powell and the Fed have confronted political criticism from Musk earlier than. 

In Might, Musk posted that the “Fed has a crazy high number of employees.”

The billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX additionally mentioned final summer time the Fed was too sluggish in reducing rates of interest, writing on X in August that the Fed “needs to drop rates” and has been “foolish not to have done so already.”

ELON MUSK’S DOGE MAKES ANOTHER HIRING PUSH

Elon Musk

Elon Musk has criticized Powell and the Fed a number of occasions. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Name, Inc through Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)

The Fed minimize rates of interest at its assembly in September for the primary time since March 2020 as inflation cooled from a 40-year excessive it reached in June 2022. 

The central financial institution minimize the benchmark federal funds fee by 50 foundation factors in September, adopted by smaller 25 foundation level cuts in November and December, earlier than pausing this month amid financial uncertainty.

DOGE, which President Donald Trump formally established through government order upon his return to the White Home final week, goals to slash authorities waste and supply elevated transparency with authorities spending.

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A few of the cuts proposed by Musk embrace simplifying the U.S. tax code, auditing the Pentagon, ending federal workers’ distant work, reevaluating expired congressional packages, modernizing IT techniques and defending federal healthcare and Social Safety advantages, to call a number of.

FOX Enterprise’ Breck Dumas contributed to this report.

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