Exclusive: US #SEC plans to cut regional directors as agency prepares for #DOGE scrutiny

The US #Securities & #Exchange Commission plans to remove the top leaders at regional offices across the country as part of its cost-cutting recommendations to the #Trump admin, acc/to 2 sources familiar w/the matter.

The SEC on Fri told directors across its 10 regional offices that their roles will be eliminated….

#FederalAgencies #GovernmentWorkers #Musk #law #StockMarket #fraud
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-securities-regulator-plans-cut-regional-directors-due-trump-administration-2025-02-24/

@Nonilex the SEC is functionally done as an agency. Killing it was the top priority (tied with killing the CFPB) for Marc Andreessen, Brian Armstrong, and the rest of the crypto bros. Over the past few years they made Gary Gensler the most famous #SEC chairman in US history by an enormous margin (and not in a good way).

The new SEC chair is a crypto bro and several of the commissioners already were (e.g. #HesterPeirce has been called "crypto mom" for years). They already dropped their major cases against the crypto companies like #Coinbase (with prejudice). The next step is to allow corporations to issue crypto tokens instead of shares of stock and in so doing just sidestep the SEC entirely.