New Federal Reserve governor Stephen Miran has could play a key role in next month’s monetary policy decision, since the committee is split on whether to cut interest rates .

Miran, who was appointed this fall by President Donald Trump to fill an open seat on the Fed board, has voted against the Fed’s decision to lower interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point the last two meetings. He instead has said he preferred a larger half percentage point cut, more in line with Trump’s desire to see the Fed’s target rate fall quickly. But now, given a given a divided Fed, he could end up being a critical, or even tiebreaking, vote.

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