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Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Philip Jefferson said on Wednesday the U.S. central bank has time to weigh its next monetary policy move, citing a robust economy and still above target inflation. “The performance of the U.S. economy has been quite strong overall,” Jefferson said in the text of a speech to be delivered at a gathering at Vassar College. Jefferson said “bumpy” progress back to the target was likely following a percentage point’s worth of rate cuts last year.

Behind the scenes, Federal Reserve officials have been saying the same thing they've said in public: that the Federal Reserve is in no hurry to cut borrowing costs.

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(Reuters) -Uncertainty over how the U.S. Treasury will manage debt issuance over the next few months drove some Federal Reserve officials to contemplate at their last policy meeting slowing or pausing the ongoing drawdown of their balance sheet until greater clarity arrives. Fed officials, in minutes of the central bank’s January 28-29 Federal Open Market Committee meeting released on Wednesday, flagged the challenge of getting a clean read on market liquidity as the government wrangles over spending plans amid a legally mandated borrowing cap that will affect how the Treasury Department manages its cash. “Regarding the potential for significant swings in reserves over coming months related to debt ceiling dynamics, various participants noted that it may be appropriate to consider pausing or slowing balance sheet runoff until the resolution of this event,” the minutes noted.

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Federal Reserve officials at a meeting last month pointed to rising risks that inflation could worsen, a key reason they kept their benchmark interest rate unchanged. According to minutes of the Jan. 28-29 meeting, which were released Wednesday, Fed officials said that President Donald Trump's proposed tariffs and mass deportations of migrants, as well as strong consumer spending, were factors that could push inflation higher this year. The Fed's 19 officials who participate in its interest-rate decisions indicated that “they would want to see further progress on inflation before making” any further cuts.