Por Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN

Kevin Warsh, candidato del presidente Donald Trump para dirigir la Reserva Federal, rechazó este martes las afirmaciones de que actuará bajo la influencia del mandatario.

Durante su audiencia de confirmación ante la Comisión Bancaria del Senado, legisladores presionaron a Warsh sobre si respondería a los pedidos de Trump para reducir las tasas de interés.

“¿Sería el ‘títere’ humano del presidente?”, le preguntó el senador republicano John Kennedy.

“Senador, en absoluto”, respondió Warsh.

Kennedy le preguntó entonces si sería el “títere” de alguien más. Warsh dijo que “si es confirmado” en el cargo del banco central, “será un actor independiente”.

Así, Warsh defendió su propia capacidad —así como la de la institución— para operar al margen de cualquier injerencia política.

Trump ha dicho en repetidas ocasiones que quiere que el próximo presidente de la Reserva Federal consulte con él sobre las decisiones de tasas de interés y ha seguido defendiendo tasas más bajas.

Las declaraciones de Warsh se producen mientras legisladores cuestionan su independencia frente a la Casa Blanca, en medio de los llamados públicos de Trump para reducir las tasas de interés.

Por su parte, la senadora demócrata Elizabeth Warren advirtió durante la audiencia que el presidente busca impulsar la economía con fines políticos, lo que, según dijo, podría afectar la toma de decisiones de la Reserva Federal.

El senador republicano Thom Tillis reiteró su promesa de bloquear la votación de confirmación hasta que se anule una investigación penal del Departamento de Justicia —calificada por él como “frívola”— dirigida contra el actual presidente de la Reserva Federal, Jerome Powell.

Warsh expresó este martes su disposición a considerar la posibilidad de celebrar menos reuniones de política monetaria, lo que supondría una ruptura con una práctica de casi 50 años.

Desde la década de 1980, la Fed ha celebrado ocho reuniones al año —con una periodicidad aproximada de seis semanas— para votar sobre el nivel adecuado de las tasas de interés. Sin embargo, por ley, los banqueros centrales solo están obligados a celebrar cuatro de dichas reuniones.

Warsh declaró ante los senadores de la Comisión Bancaria que “cuatro (reuniones) no son suficientes, por lo que celebrar más reuniones de esa cifra resulta apropiado”. Al mismo tiempo, no se comprometió a celebrar ocho reuniones al año.

No obstante, pareció mostrarse de acuerdo con la idea de celebrar conferencias de prensa tras las reuniones. “Si se celebrara una conferencia de prensa, creo que sería pertinente escuchar qué tienen en mente los periodistas presentes”, afirmó Warsh.

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By Zachary Cohen, Natasha Bertrand, CNN

(CNN) — The US military has significantly depleted its stockpile of key missiles during the war with Iran and created a “near-term risk” of running out of ammunition in a future conflict should one arise in the next few years, according to experts and three people familiar with recent internal Defense Department stockpile assessments.

Over the last seven weeks of war, the US military has expended at least 45% of its stockpile of Precision Strike Missiles; at least half of its inventory of THAAD missiles, which are designed to intercept ballistic missiles; and nearly 50% of its stockpile of Patriot air defense interceptor missiles, according to a new analysis conducted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Those numbers closely align with classified Pentagon data about US stockpiles, according to the sources familiar with the assessment.

Earlier this year the Pentagon signed a series of contracts that would help expand missile production, but the delivery timeline to replace these systems is three to five years even with the increased capacity, the CSIS experts and the sources said.

In the short term, the US likely maintains enough bombs and missiles to continue combat operations against Iran, in any scenario, should the shaky ceasefire fail to hold. But the number of critical munitions remaining in US stockpiles is no longer sufficient to confront a near-peer adversary, like China, and it will likely take years before the inventory of those weapons returns to pre-war levels, the CSIS analysis concludes.

“The high munitions expenditures have created a window of increased vulnerability in the western Pacific,” Mark Cancian, a retired US Marine Corps Colonel and one of the authors of the CSIS report, told CNN. “It will take one to four years to replenish these inventories and several years after that to expand them to where they need to be.”

In a statement to CNN, chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said that the military “has everything it needs to execute at the time and place of the President’s choosing.”

“Since President Trump took office, we have executed multiple successful operations across combatant commands while ensuring the U.S. military possesses a deep arsenal of capabilities to protect our people and our interests,” he said.

The US military has also expended approximately 30% of its Tomahawk missile stockpile; more than 20% of its stockpile of long-range Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles; and approximately 20% of its SM-3 and SM-6 missiles, according to the analysis and the sources. It would take around four to five years to replace those systems.

The missile math tracking the depleted stockpile stands in stark contrast to President Donald Trump’s recent claim that that the US is not running short of any weaponry – even as he requested additional funding for missiles due to the Iran war’s impact on existing stockpiles.

“We’re asking for a lot of reasons, beyond even what we’re talking about in Iran,” Trump said last month, referrin

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By Sarah Ferris, CNN

(CNN) — Senate GOP leaders formally declared Tuesday that they will attempt to circumvent Democrats in the months-long stalemate over Department of Homeland Security funding and deliver as much as $70 billion for immigration enforcement on their own.

After months of failing to resolve the DHS shutdown, Republicans are now planning to reopen the government without the contentious Immigration and Customs Enforcement and border patrol funding that Democrats have refused to back. The new proposed funding would ensure the agencies are funded through the remainder of President Donald Trump’s term — eliminating the need to negotiate with Democrats, who could take back control of at least one chamber after November’s elections

GOP leaders in the House and Senate will use a complex budgetary maneuver to pass the controversial immigration funding without Democratic votes.

They unveiled the first step of that process — the text of a Senate budget resolution — Tuesday morning. That tees up a Senate vote on the measure later this week. If successful, the House plans to take it up quickly after.

But it’s not a guaranteed win. Passing legislation in this manner, known as reconciliation, is an arduous process, requiring the cooperation of nearly every Republican in both chambers to proceed.

And Republicans are under pressure to move quickly: House Speaker Mike Johnson signaled Tuesday that he would not pass any partial DHS funding package until it is clear that ICE and border patrol will not be left unfunded. (It’s a stark difference from the approach of Senate Majority Leader John Thune, who advanced a partial funding bill several weeks ago, causing an uproar among the GOP.)

“The sequencing is important. We’ve got to make sure that we don’t isolate and as I say, ‘orphan’ key agencies of the department,” Johnson said, referring to ICE and border patrol. “And there’s some concern on our side that if you do the bulk of the department first before that and they could be left out.”

When the Senate officially puts its budget resolution on the floor, it will tee up a likely all-night session for senators, known as a “vote-a-rama.” That could happen later this week.

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