A handful of crypto billionaires with extreme anti-democratic views stand to profit immensely from passage of the CLARITY Act – the massive deregulatory crypto bill poised for a Senate floor vote this year. The CLARITY Act was drafted largely by and for the crypto industry and its leaders. They and the President are doing everything they can to make it become law.
Brian Armstrong is the CEO of Coinbase and one of the most wealthy and influential voices in the industry. Armstrong is at the forefront of crypto industry figures pushing to lock in weak rules that allow crypto firms to maximize insider profits without safeguards for consumers, investors, or financial stability that families and ‘real economy’ businesses need. Armstrong has deep ties to Trump and his policy demands for the CLARITY Act have been echoed by the White House and Senate Republicans.
Andreessen is at the forefront of crypto industry figures pushing to lock in weak rules that allow crypto firms to maximize insider profits without safeguards for consumers, investors, or financial stability that families and “real economy” businesses need. Andreessen has deep ties to Trump and his policy demands for the CLARITY Act have been echoed by the White House and Senate Republicans.
The CFPB is under attack. Since the first weeks of the current administration, the Trump-appointed CFPB leadership and Republicans in Congress have worked to carry out the Project 2025 goal of dismantling the Bureau. While these efforts have been blocked in court, the Trump-Vought CFPB has continued to chip away at the agency’s staff, roll
Across the country, Americans are experiencing an astonishing rise in financial scams and fraud. In the first year of the Trump Administration, regulatory agencies across the federal government received an unprecedented amount of complaints reporting instances of financial fraud and scams.
The Trump-Vought CFPB has permanently dismissed 23 of the Bureau’s public enforcement actions that were pending at the time Trump took office, pardoning egregious repeat offender banks (captured in this memo in red text) and corporations and sending the message that lawbreaking and corporate misconduct will be tolerated. Even more alarming, the Trump-Vought CFPB has