Jerome Powell: “I just want to say I think my colleagues feel the same way on the Board, that we are going to guard that border…”

If we move too slowly, there may be unnecessary losses, painful losses in the employment market.

I'm very focused on just doing my job.

If we're going to do that successfully, we need to do it in a completely nonpolitical way, which means we don't take sides, we don't play one side against the other, we stay out of issues that are really not our bailiwick.

We may approach that point in coming months