Nomination of Stephen Miran to be Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, Jeffrey Kessler to be Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security, William Pulte to be FHFA Director, and Jonathan McKernan to be CFPB Director

Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee
538 Dirksen

02/27/2025 at 10:00AM

Full committee hearing.

Nominees:

  • Dr. Stephen Miran, to be Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, Executive Office of the President
  • Jeffrey Kessler, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security, Department of Commerce
  • William Pulte, to be Director, Federal Housing Finance Agency
  • Jonathan McKernan, to be Director, Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection

Stephen Miran is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a senior strategist at Hudson Bay Capital, the global investment firm. Miran works at the intersection of economic policy and investing. During the first Trump administration, he was senior advisor for economic policy at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, where he was a student of Marty Feldstein. He received a B.A. from Boston University, where he studied economics, philosophy, and mathematics.

Jeffrey I. Kessler is a partner in WilmerHale’s International Trade Practice. He served as Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance at the US Department of Commerce during the first Trump administration. Kessler headed the 360-person office that enforces US anti-dumping and countervailing duty laws, monitoring foreign compliance with trade agreements, supporting the negotiation and implementation of international trade agreements to open foreign markets, administering the Foreign-Trade Zones program, and evaluating Section 232 steel and aluminum tariff exclusion requests. He was the decisionmaker in hundreds of trade remedies cases, renegotiated politically-charged trade pacts with foreign countries and producers.