白宫国家经济委员会主任凯文·哈塞特暗示，他预计如果本月的通胀数据居高不下，美联储将会加息。
House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett hinted that he expected the Federal Reserve would raise interest rates if inflation figures for this month are elevated.
哈塞特周四在接受彭博电视台采访时表示：“如果10月的数据非常高，那么我认为美联储可能会采取适当行动。”他表示，在该月的消费者价格指数和所谓的PCE价格指标发布后，“到那个时候，我认为美联储该做什么会很清楚。”
“If October comes out really high, then I think the Fed would probably appropriately act,” Hassett said in a Bloomberg Television interview Thursday. After the month’s consumer price index and so-called PCE price gauge are out, “at that point, I think it would be clear what the Fed should do,” he said.
此前不久发布的最新PCE通胀报告显示，剔除食品和能源的核心价格涨幅在9月达到了3.1%的同比增速。上个月整体PCE通胀率为3.6%，远高于美联储2%的目标。他表示，如果10月价格涨幅放缓，那将表明9月只是一个“小插曲”。周三，财政部长斯科特·贝森特被问及是否会认为美联储未来任何加息举措都是政策失误。他在CNBC上回应称，“未必如此”，并提到了强劲的经济增长。
Hassett was speaking shortly after the latest PCE inflation report showed that core price gains, which exclude food and energy, clocked a 3.1% year-on-year pace for September. Overall PCE inflation ran at 3.6% last month, well over the Fed’s 2% target. He said that if October prices slow, that would suggest September was just a “blip.”On Wednesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was asked if he’d view any future Fed rate increase as a policy mistake. He responded on CNBC, “that’s not necessarily so,” and cited strong economic growth.
哈塞特还表示，他对周三联邦公开市场委员会内投票支持加息的两张异议票并没有太大异议。他说，美联储主席凯文·沃什“在允许正常异议和推动共识方面做得很好”。
Hassett also indicated he had little issue with the two dissenting votes in favor of raising interest rates on the policymaking Federal Open Market Committee on Wednesday. Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh “has done a good job of allowing normal dissent and driving a consensus,” he said.
哈塞特说：“他的委员会做出了一个在我们看来非常依数据而定的决定，因此我现在对该委员会没有任何担忧。”
“His committee has made a decision that looks very data-driven to us, and so I don’t have a concern about the committee right now,” Hassett said.
美联储理事丽莎·库克和克利夫兰联邦储备银行行长贝丝·哈马克本周投票支持加息。库克是白宫成立的一个小组的目标，该小组旨在调查政府对她提出的抵押贷款欺诈指控。哈塞特是该小组的三名成员之一，并拒绝就审议工作发表评论。他确实说过，“如果人们想表达异议，那是可以的，这是一个完全公正的过程。”
Fed Governor Lisa Cook and Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President Beth Hammack voted in favor of raising rates this week. Cook is the target of a panel set up by the White House to investigate mortgage-fraud allegations the administration has levied against her. Hassett is one of the three panel members, and declined to comment on the deliberations. He did say that “people can dissent if they want, it’s a completely fair process.”