President Donald Trump’s nominee Kevin Warsh gained Senate confirmation Wednesday to be chairman of the Federal Reserve, where he is immediately set to face a dilemma between trying to curb inflation and fulfilling Trump’s wishes by lowering interest rates.

Kevin Warsh, the incoming chair of the US Federal Reserve, will return to the central bank with an ambitious reform agenda and the looming threat of intimidation by the man who nominated him: US Presi...

The vote was 54-45 in the most-partisan-ever U.S. Senate confirmation of a Fed chair.