GOP senators not in rush to consider Lisa Cook replacement on Fed until case resolved

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Lisa Cook testifies earlier a Senate Banking Committee proceeding connected her information to beryllium a subordinate of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors (for a 2nd term), connected Capitol Hill successful Washington, U.S., June 21, 2023. 

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Two Republican senators said Wednesday that they volition not see a imaginable replacement for Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook until her lawsuit challenging her firing by President Donald Trump is resolved.

"She is inactive successful the position, she has not had owed process yet," Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., told CNBC.

"We'll hold and spot what the owed process is, I don't get to marque the determination connected what comes up earlier the committee. So astatine this point, it's hypothetical," said Rounds, a subordinate of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs committee.

Sen. Thom Tillis, besides a subordinate of the Senate Banking committee, besides said that helium is "not going to see anybody until that's been adjudicated.

"I'm going to permission it to the courts to determine whether oregon not it's legal," Tillis told POLITICO.

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