FOMC Meeting Highlights: Powell Maintains Interest Rates For Second Time, Core Inflation Rate Up At 2.7% by NDTV Profits | March 19, 2026 1:21 am | Latest Posts, Market, Trending News Jerome Powell and ten other members voted for maintaining the interest rate, while voting against the action was Stephen I. Miran, who preferred to lower the target range for the federal funds rate by 1/4 percentage point.