Leavitt accuses Sen Tillis of holding US economy 'hostage’ over Fed nomination dispute

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt accused Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., of holding America "hostage" for vowing to oppose President Donald Trump’s pick to chair the Federal Reserve until the administration ends its probe of current Fed Chair Jerome Powell.

"I certainly don't think a United States sitting senator should be holding the entire country and our economy hostage over the fact that he has some political disagreements with an investigation that the Department of Justice is...