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  • Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dave Mattingly.

  • The Federal Reserve is expected to leave U.S. Interest rates unchanged

  • when it wraps up its latest policy meeting today in Washington.

  • NPR's Scott Horsley says this will likely be the final rate-setting meeting for Fed Chair Jerome Powell.

  • Powell's term as Fed chair is set to expire in mid-May,

  • and it now looks as if President Trump's pick to replace Powell will win Senate confirmation in time

  • to take over before the next rate-setting meeting in June.

  • The Senate Banking Committee is set to vote this morning on Kevin Warsh's nomination to be the next Fed chair.

  • North Carolina Republican Tom Tillis dropped his opposition to that vote after the Justice Department

  • agreed to end its criminal investigation of the Fed, which was widely seen as part of a White House pressure campaign.

  • President Trump has repeatedly called on the Fed to lower interest rates.

  • Many Fed policymakers are reluctant to do so,

  • however, so long as inflation remains elevated and the war with Iran is putting more upward pressure on prices.

  • Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.