“I don’t want to be a liability,” conservative commentator Stephen Moore said of his candidacy for a Fed post. “Why should we risk a Senate seat for a Federal Reserve board person, you know?”
WASHINGTON—Conservative commentator Stephen Moore said he was hopeful about his chances of being nominated and confirmed to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors but would bow out of the process if he became a political liability for the Trump administration or Senate Republicans.
“I want to help make America the most prosperous place in the world,” Mr. Moore said Wednesday in an interview, adding, “I’m totally committed to it as long as the White House is totally committed to it.”
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