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Trump Makes Next Fed Chair’s Job Harder

December 5, 2025 at 9:14 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Trump’s future Federal Reserve chair was already facing a daunting task: juggling wary financial markets, hard-to-interpret economic indicators, the sprawling and complex internal politics within the central bank itself and a brash president whose quest for lower interest rates has consumed much of his attention this year,” Politico reports.

“But as he homes in on his ultimate pick, Trump is ratcheting up the tension further for whomever gets the job after Fed Chair Jerome Powell by pushing for policies that could make inflation worse, even as he continues to pressure the Fed to declare victory over price spikes.”

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goddard-bw-snapshotTaegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.

Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.

Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.

Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.

Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.

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