美国总统乔·拜登周一宣布，他将提名美联储董事长杰罗姆·鲍威尔连任四年对控制通货膨胀的担忧并借此机会回应了那些对鲍威尔提名表示反对的人。

“作为主席，杰伊进行了一次里程碑式的审查，以加强美联储实现充分就业的使命，为现在朝着这个目标取得强劲进展，我相信杰伊是正确的人，可以帮助我们度过难关，完成这项工作，同时应对通货膨胀的威胁及其对我们的经济和家庭构成的威胁，”拜登在下午与他的提名者一起在白宫举行的活动中说。

“毫无疑问，现在有些人会质疑，为什么我要重新提名杰伊，而他是共和党前任的选择。为什么我不选民主党人?“为什么我不抽取新鲜血液，或者把美联储引向不同的方向?””拜登说。

“直接地说，在我们的经济面临巨大潜力和巨大不确定性的时刻，我们需要美联储的稳定和独立。杰伊证明了我在联邦政府中所珍视的独立性——在美联储主席职位上。在上届政府中，他顶住了前所未有的政治干预，并在这样做的过程中成功地维护了这个机构的诚信和信誉。这只是杰伊获得政界各界支持的众多原因之一，”他在邀请鲍威尔发言之前补充道。

亚历克斯·王/盖蒂图像公司

美国总统乔·拜登在美联储董事会主席杰罗姆·鲍威尔的讲话中..

拜登还表示，他将提名长期担任美联储官员、前财政部副部长的莱尔·布雷纳德博士担任美联储体系理事会副主席。

“尽管仍有更多工作要做，但在过去10个月里，我们在让美国人重返工作岗位和让我们的经济再次运转方面取得了显著进展。他在早些时候的一份声明中说:“这一成功证明了我所追求的经济议程，也证明了美联储在鲍威尔主席和布雷纳德博士的领导下采取的果断行动，帮助我们度过了美国现代历史上最严重的衰退，并使我们走上了复苏的道路。

此前，围绕拜登是否会再次提名共和党人鲍威尔(Powell)的问题最近浮出水面，鲍威尔曾被时任总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)提名为2017年美联储总统。鲍威尔于2011年首次被时任总统巴拉克·奥巴马(Barack Obama)提名进入美联储理事会，随后特朗普提拔他接替珍妮特·耶伦(Janet Yellen)，后者目前担任拜登的财政部长。

苏珊·沃尔什/美联社档案

美联储的主席杰罗姆·鲍威尔在参议院银行委员会听取意见

他在声明中补充说:“从根本上说，如果我们想继续在今年经济成功的基础上再接再厉，我们需要美联储的稳定和独立——经过过去20个月的激烈考验，我完全相信鲍威尔主席和布雷纳德博士将提供我们国家所需的强有力的领导。”。

鲍威尔和布雷纳德都在白宫发表了简短的讲话，誓言要代表所有美国人努力提高经济的弹性。

鲍威尔在谈到他们在美联储的工作时说:“我们明白，我们的决定对美国家庭和社区至关重要。“我强烈认同这种使命感，并致力于根据货币政策独立这一长期传统中现有的最佳证据，客观、完整地做出这些决定。”

据一位知情人士透露，由于总统最近几周面临越来越大的政治压力，要求他提名布雷纳德接替鲍威尔，以此来动摇领导层，他于周五与鲍威尔和布雷纳德讨论了他的决定。

消息人士称，总统定期与议员和利益攸关方就该决定进行接触，包括国会山的进步派和温和派民主党人。拜登最近会见了参议员。伊丽莎白·沃伦，麻省理工学院。在沃伦公开称鲍威尔为领导该机构的“危险人物”后，她在白宫听取了她对这一决定的意见。

“你的记录让我非常担心。沃伦在9月28日的听证会上说:“你一次又一次地采取行动，让我们的银行系统变得不那么安全，这让你成为领导美联储的危险人物，这就是为什么我会反对再次提名你。她周一表示，她将反对鲍威尔的提名。

据消息人士称，拜登和他的团队还与参议院银行委员会主席俄亥俄州参议员谢罗德·布朗进行了定期和密切的磋商。布朗周一表示，他将支持鲍威尔的提名。

尽管布雷纳德赢得了像沃伦这样的进步人士的支持，他们认为她在银行监管和气候变化问题上更加强硬，但通过让鲍威尔留任，拜登似乎发出了一个信息，重申央行独立于政治。

经济研究咨询公司High Frequency Economics的美国首席经济学家鲁贝拉·法鲁奇(Rubeela Farooqi)在给美国广播公司(ABC News)的一份声明中表示:“总体而言，在鲍威尔继续担任主席的情况下，沟通将保持清晰和透明，政策不会偏离当前的温和路线太远。

这一提名是在央行面临关键时刻做出的，央行肩负着抑制通胀和维持就业增长的使命。最近几个月，鲍威尔在通胀问题上倾向于“温和派”，坚称随着疫情的消退和供应链的解开，价格上涨将会减弱。

鲍威尔在美联储经历了一段忙碌的时光，该国针对疫情向金融体系注入了前所未有的刺激措施，现在开始放松部分刺激措施。华尔街一直押注于他的连任，认为这是在经济动荡时期保持政策连续性的一种方式。

如果两者都得到参议院的确认，白宫在美联储董事会仍将有几个席位需要填补，包括首席银行监管人，这让拜登有机会用这些人选以更激烈的方式重塑央行。

经济学家告诉美国广播公司新闻，他们预计提名者将在参议院迅速得到确认。

牛津经济学首席美国金融经济学家凯西·博斯特坚契奇说:“我们认为，拜登将倾向于民主党的提名人莱尔·布雷纳德的宣布与倾向于共和党的杰罗姆·鲍威尔配对，以减轻民主党进步成员的反对。

尽管至少有三名民主党人表示反对鲍威尔的提名，但至少有五名共和党人表示支持——因此，他似乎将得到确认，但并非没有多名共和党人支持拜登的提名。包括时任参议员卡玛拉·哈里斯在内的9名民主党人在2018年反对鲍威尔的提名，当时他以84票对13票获得参议院确认。

共和党领袖参议员米奇·麦康奈尔的一名助手证实，预计这位少数党领袖也将支持鲍威尔的再次提名。其他人可能会效仿。

共和党人正寻求将鲍威尔打上一个烙印，认为他是受通胀和供应链挑战困扰的经济的必要稳定来源，他们一再将此归咎于民主党。

共和党参议员凯文·克莱默(Kevin Cramer)在一份声明中表示:“鉴于经济受到新冠肺炎的拖累，以及由于拜登政府的削弱政策而导致的供应链问题和通胀飙升，美联储需要一致性。”。“鲍威尔的任命是一致性的标志，在这样一个时刻，这一点非常重要。稳定和一致符合美国经济的最佳利益，我期待支持他的确认。”

Biden nominates Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell to 2nd term

President Joe Biden announced Monday he will nominate Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell to a second four-year term amid newconcerns about controlling inflationand took the opportunity to respond to those who have voiced opposition to Powell's nomination.

"As chair, Jay undertook a landmark review to reinforce the Federal Reserve's mission towards delivering full employment, for making strong progress towards that goal now, and I believe Jay is the right person to see us through and finish that effort while also addressing the threat of inflation and what it poses to our economies and families," Biden said at an afternoon event at the White House alongside his nominees.

"Now some will, no doubt, question why I'm renominating Jay when he was the choice of a Republican predecessor. 'Why am I not picking a Democrat? Why am I not picking fresh blood or taking the Fed in a different direction?'" Biden said.

"Put directly, at this moment of both enormous potential and enormous uncertainty for our economy, we need stability and Independence at the Federal Reserve. Jay's proven the independence that I value in the federal -- in the fed chair. In the last administration, he stood up to unprecedented political interference and in doing so successfully maintained the integrity and credibility of this institution. It's just one of the many reasons that Jay has support from across the political spectrum," he added, before inviting Powell to speak.

Biden also said he would nominate Dr. Lael Brainard, a longtime Federal Reserve official and former Treasury Department undersecretary, to serve as vice chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

"While there's still more to be done, we've made remarkable progress over the last 10 months in getting Americans back to work and getting our economy moving again. That success is a testament to the economic agenda I've pursued and to the decisive action that the Federal Reserve has taken under Chair Powell and Dr. Brainard to help steer us through the worst downturn in modern American history and put us on the path to recovery," he said in an earlier statement.

The announcement follows recent questions surrounding whether Biden would renominate Powell, a Republican, who was nominated to chair the Federal Reserve in 2017 by then-President Donald Trump. Powell was first nominated to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors by then-President Barack Obama in 2011 before Trump elevated him to succeed Janet Yellen, who now serves as Biden's treasury secretary.

"Fundamentally, if we want to continue to build on the economic success of this year we need stability and independence at the Federal Reserve -- and I have full confidence after their trial by fire over the last 20 months that Chair Powell and Dr. Brainard will provide the strong leadership our country needs," he added in the statement.

Powell and Brainard both offered brief remarks at the White House, vowing to work on behalf of all Americans to increase the resilience of the economy.

"We understand that our decisions matter for American families and communities," Powell said of their work at the Federal Reserve. "I strongly share that sense of mission and am committed to making those decisions with objectivity and with integrity based on the best available evidence in the longstanding tradition of monetary policy independence."

As the president faced mounting political pressure in recent weeks to shake up the leadership by nominating Brainard to replace Powell, he talked with both Powell and Brainard about his decision on Friday, according to a source familiar with the matter.

The president regularly engaged with members and stakeholders around the decision, including with both progressives and moderate Democrats on Capitol Hill, the source said. Biden recently met with Sen.Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., at the White House to get her input on the decision after Warren had publicly called Powell a "dangerous man" to lead the agency.

"Your record gives me grave concerns. Over and over, you have acted to make our banking system less safe, and that makes you a dangerous man to head up the Fed, and it's why I will oppose your renomination," Warren said in a hearing on Sept. 28. She said Monday she will oppose Powell's nomination.

Biden and his team had also been in regular and close consultation with Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, who chairs the Senate Banking Committee, according to the source. Brown said on Monday he would support Powell's nomination.

Despite Brainard winning over progressives like Warren who argue she is tougher on bank regulation and climate change, by keeping Powell in place, Biden appears to be sending a message reaffirming the central bank's independence from politics.

"Overall, with Mr. Powell remaining Chair, communication will remain clear and transparent and policy will not veer too far off from the current dovish path," Rubeela Farooqi, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics, an economic research consultancy firm, said in a statement to ABC News.

The nomination comes at a critical moment for the central bank, which has a mandate to contain inflation and sustain job growth. Powell has tilted "dovish" on inflation in recent months, insisting the run-up in prices will abate as the pandemic recedes and the supply chain untangles.

Powell oversaw a busy time at the Federal Reserve as it pumped unprecedented stimulus into the financial system in response to the pandemic and now starts to unwind some of that stimulus. Wall Street had been betting on his re-nomination as a way to keep continuity in policy at a tumultuous time in the economy.

If both are confirmed by the Senate, the White House will still have several seats to fill on the Federal Reserve Board, including the lead banking supervisor, allowing Biden the opportunity to reshape the central bank in a more drastic way with those picks.

Economists told ABC News they expect swift confirmation in the Senate for the nominees.

"We believe that Biden paired the announcement of the more Democratic-leaning nominee Lael Brainard with the Republican-leaning Jerome Powell to allay objections from the progressive members of the Democratic party," said Kathy Bostjancic, Oxford Economics Chief U.S. Financial Economist.

Although at least three Democrats have signaled their opposition to Powell's nomination, at least five Republicans have voiced support -- so it appears he will be confirmed but not without multiple Republicans supporting Biden's nominee. There were nine Democrats, including then-Sen. Kamala Harris, who opposed Powell's nomination in 2018 when he was confirmed by the Senate in an 84-13 vote.

An aide to GOP leader Sen. Mitch McConnell confirmed that the minority leader is also expected to back Powell's renomination. Others are likely to follow suit.

Republicans are looking to brand Powell as a source of necessary stability for an economy plagued by inflation and supply chain challenges, something they've repeatedly blamed Democrats for.

"In light of an economy hamstrung by COVID-19, and now supply chain issues and soaring inflation thanks to the Biden Administration’s debilitating policies, the Federal Reserve needs consistency," Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., said in a statement. "Powell’s appointment is a sign of consistency, which is so important at a time like this. Stability and consistency are in the best interests of the American economy and I look forward to supporting his confirmation.”