An influential Republican Senator said Tuesday he did not think that President Donald Trump would reappoint Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen to a second four-year term. “I believe he will appoint someone else to take her place,” Sen. Richard Shelby, the former chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, told Bloomberg Television. Shelby said he has talked to Trump about the vacancies at the central bank, but refused to provide any details of their conversation. Trump could end up filling five of the seven seats on the Fed board of governors. Yellen’s term ends in early February.
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