WASHINGTON—The White House is working to secure the support of key Capitol Hill allies as officials deliberate over whom to nominate for the No. 2 job at the Federal Reserve, according to people familiar with the matter, with Democrats’ slim majority in the Senate hanging over the search.
Last month, some administration officials privately identified Janice Eberly, a finance professor at Northwestern University, as the leading candidate for the Fed vice chair. But Sen. Robert Menendez (D., N.J.), a senior member of the Senate Banking Committee, has continued to mount an aggressive campaign to pressure the White House to nominate a Latino economist for the job.
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