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The following information was released by the office of Arizona Senator Ruben Gallego:

"These ongoing efforts by the President to control the Fed which must be able to exercise independent judgment undermine public confidence in any nomination for chair at this time.

Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ)and all eleven Democratic Members of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs sent a letter to Chairman Tim Scott calling on him to delay the nomination hearing of President Trump's Fed Nominee, Kevin Warsh, until all pretextual investigations against current Federal Reserve Board members are closed.

"The (Warsh) nomination comes after months of repeated efforts by President Trump and his Administration to influence the Fed by intimidation, including by opening criminal investigations into Fed Governor Lisa Cook and Fed Chair Jerome Powell. These ongoing efforts by the President to control the Fed which must be able to exercise independent judgment undermine public confidence in any nomination for chair at this time,"wrote the Banking Committee Democrats.

The Banking Committee Democrats continued:"We demand that you delay any nomination proceedings for Mr. Warsh until after the pretextual criminal investigations involving Chair Powell and Governor Cook have been closed."

The Senators wrote:"The Administration's apparent effort to seize control of the Fed through criminal prosecutions is dangerous and unprecedented. It would be absurd on its face to allow President Trump to handpick the next Chair of the Federal Reserve as his Department of Justice actively pursues criminal investigations of not one, but two sitting members of the Federal Reserve Board. This Committee should not participate in this farcical effort that threatens to undermine our democracy and confidence in our financial markets."