Stephen Miran, the chair of Trump's Council of Economic Advisers and a fellow critic of Fed chair Jerome Powell, has been nominated to fill a seat on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors

Days after the devastating July 4 flooding in Texas, President Trump signed a memorandum classifying Weather Service employees as public safety employees. The designation does not protect these employees from future cuts, but it does make them exempt from the current government hiring freeze, Mr. Fahy said.

Trump nominated Miran on Thursday to complete Kugler’s term, which expires on Jan. 31. Trump has been demanding that Chair Jerome Powell and his Fed colleagues lower rates. He has said the Fed’s policy rate should be at 1%,