Recent Trump appointee Stephen Miran was the lone dissenter in Wednesday’s 11-1 vote, holding out for a bigger, 1/2 percentage point rate cut advocated by the president.
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Fed signals it’s just getting started with 1/4 percentage point rate cut
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