Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., on Sunday said he'll vote to confirm President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh.

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The announcement comes after Tillis for weeks blocked Warsh's nomination from moving forward as he protested a Justice Department investigation into the Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

"We worked a lot over the weekend to make sure that we were very clear that we have assurances from the DOJ that I needed to feel like they were not using the DOJ as a weapon to threaten the independence of the Fed. So this will allow Mr. Wash to move on with his confirmation on time," Tillis told NBC News' "Meet the Press" on Sunday.

On Friday, the Justice Departmentannouncedit was dropping its investigation into Powell, a probe that had largely centered on a ongoing renovation project at the Federal Reserve's headquarters.

Tillis, who had been highly critical of the investigation, said Sunday that he’s had “a number of discussions” with Justice Department officials who “have made it very clear that the current investigation is completely and fully ended.”

In an NBC News interviewearlier this month, while Tillis was still blocking Warsh’s nomination, the North Carolina senator called him “a perfect candidate” and made clear that his blockade was not because he objected to Warsh’s nomination, but just in protest of the Powell investigation.

"Let's get Warsh in there," Tillis told reporters shortly after a Senate hearing on Warsh's nomination. "Let's get Chair Powell comfortable with actually exiting at some point, not to 2028, and do that by eliminating a bogus investigation that started this whole drama."

In a statement Fridayannouncingthat the Justice Department was dropping their investigation, U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro said that the department was clearing the way for Federal Reserve Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz to “scrutinize the building costs overruns.”

However, the Fed's inspector general has been reviewing the costs, for a second time,after Powell himself requested the review last July. The inspector general's first review in 2021 found no wrongdoing.

Source: Drudge Report