Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is bringing on two big names to help shape policy in its fast-growing industry: Former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema and Chris LaCivita, President Trump’s co-campaign manager in 2024, Semafor reports.


Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is bringing on two big names to help shape policy in its fast-growing industry: Former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema and Chris LaCivita, President Trump’s co-campaign manager in 2024, Semafor reports.
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Ankush Khardori: “There is extraordinarily little support for the idea that the president could simply disregard orders from the courts. That is true across the public… I also found similar…
Russian President Vladimir Putin said President Trump’s desire to take Greenland has nothing to do with the Kremlin, The Hill reports. Putin also claimed that the United States’s plan to…
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“The United States has paused contributions to the World Trade Organization, as U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration ramps up efforts to cut government spending,” Reuters reports. “The Trump administration is…
Rick Hasen: “He’s offering a chance to win a million dollars, which is a thing of value, and it’s only offered to people who have voted.” “One might say he’s…
“President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to wade into the fraught legal battle over enforcing the Alien Enemies Act, the wartime authority he used to rapidly…
“President Trump has signed an executive order ending collective bargaining for wide swaths of federal employees, as part of his broader campaign to reshape the U.S. government’s workforce,” NPR reports….
“The so-called Department of Government Efficiency is starting to put together a team to migrate the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) computer systems entirely off one of its oldest programming languages…
“The law firm Jenner and Block filed suit against the Trump Administration Friday seeking to block an executive order signed by President Donald Trump last week that targeted its attorneys’…
“Elon Musk said Thursday that the U.S. DOGE Service he is overseeing aims to cut $1 trillion in federal spending per year — an amount he said won’t harm services…
Gallup: “Key members of President Donald Trump’s political base — Republicans, conservatives and men — show higher approval of his job performance at the beginning of his second term compared…
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Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
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Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
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