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Time of India
7 hours ago
- Politics
- Time of India
'No Secret Police': Blue States Open Fresh Front Against Masked Unmarked ICE Agents I Details
Democratic-led states in the U.S. are proposing bans on ICE agents wearing masks and mandating visible ID cards during operations. California, New York, Massachusetts, and cities like Chicago and Albuquerque are considering such laws, citing public fear of masked agents kidnapping or assaulting immigrants. Supporters argue these measures prevent impersonation crimes, while DHS warns bans will endanger ICE agents and hinder enforcement. The DOJ maintains states cannot regulate federal law enforcement uniforms. Latino communities remain deeply worried about masked raids. Democrats in Congress now push for a national ban on ICE masks, escalating state-federal clashes. Read More
Los Angeles Times
8 hours ago
- Health
- Los Angeles Times
California, other Democratic-led states roll back Medicaid access for people lacking legal status
SACRAMENTO — For nearly 20 years, Maria would call her sister — a nurse in Mexico — for advice on how to manage her asthma and control her husband's diabetes instead of going to the doctor in California. She didn't have legal status, so she couldn't get health insurance and skipped routine exams, relying instead on home remedies and, at times, getting inhalers from Mexico. She insisted on using only her first name for fear of deportation. Things changed for Maria and many others in recent years when some Democratic-led states opened up their health insurance programs to low-income immigrants regardless of their legal status. Maria and her husband signed up the day the program began last year. 'It changed immensely, like from Earth to the heavens,' Maria said in Spanish of Medi-Cal, California's Medicaid program. 'Having the peace of mind of getting insurance leads me to getting sick less.' At least seven states and the District of Columbia have offered coverage for immigrants, mostly since 2020. But three of them have done an about-face, ending or limiting coverage for hundreds of thousands of immigrants who aren't in the U.S. legally — California, Illinois and Minnesota. The programs cost much more than officials had projected at a time when the states are facing multibillion-dollar deficits now and in the future. In Illinois, adult immigrants ages 42 to 64 without legal status have lost their healthcare to save an estimated $404 million. All adult immigrants in Minnesota no longer have access to the state program, saving nearly $57 million. In California, no one will automatically lose coverage, but new enrollments for adults will stop in 2026 to save more than $3 billion over several years. Cuts in all three states were backed by Democratic governors who once championed expanding health coverage to immigrants. The Trump administration this week shared the home addresses, ethnicities and personal data of all Medicaid recipients with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. Twenty states, including California, Illinois and Minnesota, have sued. Healthcare providers told the Associated Press that all of those factors, especially the fear of being arrested or deported, are having a chilling effect on people seeking care. And states may have to spend more money down the road because immigrants will avoid preventive healthcare and end up needing to go to safety-net hospitals. 'I feel like they continue to squeeze you more and more to the point where you'll burst,' Maria said, referencing all the uncertainties for people who are in the U.S. without legal permission. People who run free and community health clinics in California and Minnesota said patients who got on state Medicaid programs received knee replacements and heart procedures and were diagnosed for serious conditions like late-stage cancer. CommunityHealth is one of the nation's largest free clinics, serving many uninsured and underinsured immigrants in the Chicago area who have no other options for treatment. That includes the people who lost coverage July 1 when Illinois ended its Health Benefits for Immigrants Adults Program, which served about 31,500 people ages 42 to 64. One of CommunityHealth's community outreach workers and care coordinator said Eastern European patients she works with started coming in with questions about what the change meant for them. She said many of the patients also don't speak English and don't have transportation to get to clinics that can treat them. The worker spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity to protect patients' privacy. Health Finders Collective in Minnesota's rural Rice and Steele counties south of Minneapolis serves low-income and underinsured patients, including large populations of Latino immigrants and Somali refugees. Executive director Charlie Mandile said his clinics are seeing patients rushing to squeeze in appointments and procedures before 19,000 people age 18 and older are kicked off insurance at the end of the year. Free and community health clinics in all three states say they will keep serving patients regardless of insurance coverage — but that might get harder after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services decided this month to restrict federally qualified health centers from treating people without legal status. CommunityHealth Chief Executive Stephanie Willding said she always worried about the stability of the program because it was fully state funded, 'but truthfully, we thought that day was much, much further away.' 'People are going to die. Some people are going to go untreated,' Alicia Hardy, chief executive officer of CommuniCARE+OLE clinics in California, said of the state's Medicaid changes. 'It's hard to see the humanity in the decision-making that's happening right now.' A spokesperson for the Minnesota Department of Health said ending the state's program will decrease MinnesotaCare spending in the short term, but she acknowledged healthcare costs would rise elsewhere, including uncompensated care at hospitals. Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth, a Republican, said the state's program was not sustainable. 'It wasn't about trying to be non-compassionate or not caring about people,' she said. 'When we looked at the state budget, the dollars were not there to support what was passed and what was being spent.' Demuth also noted that children will still have coverage, and adults lacking permanent legal status can buy private health insurance. Healthcare providers also are worried that preventable conditions will go unmanaged, and people will avoid care until they end up in emergency rooms — where care will be available under federal law. One of those safety-net public hospitals, Cook County Health in Chicago, treated about 8,000 patients from Illinois' program last year. Dr. Erik Mikaitis, the health system's CEO, said doing so brought in $111 million in revenue. But he anticipated other providers who billed through the program could close, he said. 'Things can become unstable very quickly,' he said. State lawmakers said California's Medi-Cal changes stem from budget issues — a $12-billion deficit this year, with larger ones projected ahead. Democratic state leaders last month agreed to stop new enrollment starting in 2026 for all low-income adults without legal status. Those under 60 remaining on the program will have to pay a $30 monthly fee in 2027. States are also bracing for impact from federal policies. Cuts to Medicaid and other programs in President Trump's massive tax and spending bill include a 10% cut to the federal share of Medicaid expansion costs to states that offer health benefits to immigrants starting October 2027. California health officials estimate roughly 200,000 people will lose coverage after the first full year of restricted enrollment, though Gov. Gavin Newsom maintains that even with the rollbacks, California provides the most expansive healthcare coverage for poor adults. Every new bill requires a shift in Maria's monthly calculations to make ends meet. She believes many people won't be able to afford the $30-a-month premiums and will instead go back to self-medication or skip treatment altogether. 'It was a total triumph,' she said of Medi-Cal expansion. 'But now that all of this is coming our way, we're going backwards to a worse place.' Fear and tension about immigration raids are changing patient behavior, too. Providers told the AP that, as immigration raids ramped up, their patients were requesting more virtual appointments, not showing up to routine doctor's visits and not picking up prescriptions for their chronic conditions. Maria has the option to keep her coverage. But she is weighing the health of her family against risking what they've built in the U.S. 'It's going to be very difficult,' Maria said of her decision to remain on the program. 'If it comes to the point where my husband gets sick and his life is at risk, well then, obviously, we have to choose his life.' Nguyễn and Shastri write for the Associated Press and reported from Sacramento and Milwaukee, respectively. AP journalist Godofredo Vasquez in San Francisco contributed to this report.
Japan Today
a day ago
- Politics
- Japan Today
U.S. judge weighs putting new block on Trump's birthright citizenship order
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media, after the U.S. Supreme Court dealt a blow to the power of federal judges by restricting their ability to grant broad legal relief in cases as the justices acted in a legal fight over President Donald Trump's bid to limit birthright citizenship, in the Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington D.C., June 27, 2025. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno/File Photo By Jan Wolfe A group of Democratic-led states urged a federal judge in Boston on Friday to deal another blow to President Donald Trump's attempts to limit birthright citizenship, even though a U.S. Supreme Court decision last month made it more difficult for lower courts to block White House directives. Lawyers for New Jersey, arguing on behalf of 18 states and the District of Columbia, urged U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin to maintain an injunction he imposed in February that blocked Trump's executive order nationwide. The states' case is back in Sorokin's courtroom so he can assess the impact of the Supreme Court's landmark June 27 decision. In that 6-3 ruling authored by conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the court directed lower court judges like Sorokin that had blocked Trump's policy to reconsider the scope of their orders. Trump's executive order was already halted again last week by a different judge in New Hampshire, but a win in Sorokin's courtroom would give critics of the Trump policy another boost in litigation that is widely expected to end up back before the Supreme Court. Shankar Duraiswamy, an attorney for New Jersey, told Sorokin that the Supreme Court decision made clear that nationwide injunctions are permissible if they are the only way to provide "complete relief" to litigants in a particular lawsuit. A nationwide block on Trump's executive order is the only way to avoid massive administrative upheaval for state governments, Duraiswamy said. Restricting birthright citizenship in some states but not others would make it difficult to administer federal benefits programs like Medicaid, he argued. This patchwork approach would also lead to confusion among immigrant parents and a surge of people moving to states where Trump's executive order is on hold, straining resources, he said. "Half-measures are not warranted when enjoining a flagrantly unconstitutional executive action," Duraiswamy said, adding that the Trump administration "wants to rush forward with an unprecedented sea change in how citizenship is understood." Justice Department lawyer Eric Hamilton countered that, by continuing to advocate for universal relief, the states had failed to come to grips with the Supreme Court's decision. Hamilton said the burden is on the states to propose a narrower relief but they have failed to do so. He also argued the states were alleging fundamentally monetary harms, which are typically not addressed through injunctions. Sorokin told him that the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had already rejected that argument in an earlier decision that left his injunction in place. "We are not asking this court to do anything contrary to circuit precedent," Hamilton said. "But it seems like you are," the judge replied. Sorokin said he planned to issue a written decision in the coming weeks. Trump's executive order directed U.S. agencies to refuse to recognize the citizenship of children born in the United States after February 19 if neither their mother nor father is a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident. Rather than address the legality of Trump's executive order, the Supreme Court in its June ruling used the case to discourage nationwide, or 'universal,' injunctions — in which a single district court judge can block enforcement of a federal policy across the country. But the court raised the possibility that universal injunctions are still permissible in certain circumstances, including class actions, in which similarly situated people sue as a group, or if they are the only way to provide "complete relief" to litigants in a particular lawsuit. A ruling from Sorokin, an appointee of Democratic President Barack Obama, in favor of the states would be the second blow to Trump's executive order this month. On July 10 at a hearing in New Hampshire, U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante, an appointee of Republican president George W. Bush, issued a nationwide injunction blocking Trump's order after he found that children whose citizenship status would be threatened by it could pursue their lawsuit as a class action. The Democratic-led states, backed by immigrant rights groups, argue the White House directive violated a right enshrined in the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment that guarantees that virtually anyone born in the United States is a citizen. The Justice Department has argued that the Supreme Court has never ruled directly on the interpretation of birthright citizenship advanced by Trump, which they assert is consistent with the Constitution's text. © Thomson Reuters 2025.
Indian Express
a day ago
- Politics
- Indian Express
US judge weighs putting new block on Trump's birthright citizenship order
A group of Democratic-led states urged a federal judge in Boston on Friday to deal another blow to President Donald Trump's attempts to limit birthright citizenship, even though a US Supreme Court decision last month made it more difficult for lower courts to block White House directives. Lawyers for New Jersey, arguing on behalf of 18 states and the District of Columbia, urged US District Judge Leo Sorokin to maintain an injunction he imposed in February that blocked Trump's executive order nationwide. The states' case is back in Sorokin's courtroom so he can assess the impact of the Supreme Court's landmark June 27 decision. In that 6-3 ruling authored by conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the court directed lower court judges like Sorokin that had blocked Trump's policy to reconsider the scope of their orders. Trump's executive order was already halted again last week by a different judge in New Hampshire, but a win in Sorokin's courtroom would give critics of the Trump policy another boost in litigation that is widely expected to end up back before the Supreme Court. Shankar Duraiswamy, an attorney for New Jersey, told Sorokin that the Supreme Court decision made clear that nationwide injunctions are permissible if they are the only way to provide 'complete relief' to litigants in a particular lawsuit. A nationwide block on Trump's executive order is the only way to avoid massive administrative upheaval for state governments, Duraiswamy said. Restricting birthright citizenship in some states but not others would make it difficult to administer federal benefits programs like Medicaid, he argued. This patchwork approach would also lead to confusion among immigrant parents and a surge of people moving to states where Trump's executive order is on hold, straining resources, he said. 'Half-measures are not warranted when enjoining a flagrantly unconstitutional executive action,' Duraiswamy said, adding that the Trump administration 'wants to rush forward with an unprecedented sea change in how citizenship is understood.' Justice Department lawyer Eric Hamilton countered that, by continuing to advocate for universal relief, the states had failed to come to grips with the Supreme Court's decision. Hamilton said the burden is on the states to propose a narrower relief but they have failed to do so. He also argued the states were alleging fundamentally monetary harms, which are typically not addressed through injunctions. Sorokin told him that the 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals had already rejected that argument in an earlier decision that left his injunction in place. 'We are not asking this court to do anything contrary to circuit precedent,' Hamilton said. 'But it seems like you are,' the judge replied. Sorokin said he planned to issue a written decision in the coming weeks. Trump's executive order directed US agencies to refuse to recognize the citizenship of children born in the United States after February 19 if neither their mother nor father is a US citizen or lawful permanent resident. Rather than address the legality of Trump's executive order, the Supreme Court in its June ruling used the case to discourage nationwide, or 'universal,' injunctions — in which a single district court judge can block enforcement of a federal policy across the country. But the court raised the possibility that universal injunctions are still permissible in certain circumstances, including class actions, in which similarly situated people sue as a group, or if they are the only way to provide 'complete relief' to litigants in a particular lawsuit. A ruling from Sorokin, an appointee of Democratic President Barack Obama, in favor of the states would be the second blow to Trump's executive order this month. On July 10 at a hearing in New Hampshire, US District Judge Joseph Laplante, an appointee of Republican president George W. Bush, issued a nationwide injunction blocking Trump's order after he found that children whose citizenship status would be threatened by it could pursue their lawsuit as a class action. The Democratic-led states, backed by immigrant rights groups, argue the White House directive violated a right enshrined in the US Constitution's 14th Amendment that guarantees that virtually anyone born in the United States is a citizen. The Justice Department has argued that the Supreme Court has never ruled directly on the interpretation of birthright citizenship advanced by Trump, which they assert is consistent with the Constitution's text.
Politico
a day ago
- Politics
- Politico
Trump's school pressure campaign
Presented by THE CATCH-UP SCHOOL DAZE: The Trump administration has partially backed down from its hold on almost $7 billion in federal funding for states and local schools, following a rare and ideologically broad backlash from Senate Republicans and a lawsuit from Democratic-led states. But most of the money is still being held back for now, pending further review, POLITICO's Juan Perez Jr. reports for Pros. Out of the freezer: Sen. Shelley Moore Capito ( who led the letter, announced that OMB Director Russ Vought told her the money would be released. The funds for after-school programs, summer school, teacher training and English-language learners were originally expected to be disbursed at the start of the month, and advocates warned that their loss could upend school-district budgets and programming. Testifying in Congress last month, Vought declined to rule out the prospect of including the congressionally approved funding in a future rescission package. Back in black: About $1.3 billion for the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program is being released, after OMB finished a review of it, Juan reports. That 'could help ease an immediate budget crunch.' But Democrats said the freeze on the other dollars remained illegal and damaging: 'Every penny of this funding must flow immediately,' Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) said in a statement. More cuts: As the administration dismantles large parts of the Education Department, data shows that the number of civil rights cases resolved by the agency has plunged this year, AP's Collin Binkley reports. Education Secretary Linda McMahon told Congress last month that the pace wasn't slowing despite reduced staff, but the numbers tell a different story. Parents say they've felt the change. On campus: President Donald Trump's highest-profile education fights, though, remain with elite universities — and some of them are reaching a crescendo. The White House is reportedly close to finalizing a deal with Columbia, but its fight against Harvard is heading back to court for a high-profile hearing Monday, NYT's Alan Blinder and colleagues preview. Turning the Crimson tide: A deal with Harvard that Trump indicated last month was near still hasn't come together; in the meantime, the administration has continued to withhold research funding and repeatedly tried to increase its leverage with new demands and attacks. Negotiations are ongoing but 'have made limited headway,' the Times reports. 'Trump administration officials are looking to secure the most significant victory of their ongoing pressure campaign on academia.' But whether the judge rules for or against Harvard in its lawsuit over frozen funding could be pivotal to determining the contours of a deal. The man in the middle: Alan Garber is the subject of a big new profile by The Atlantic's Franklin Foer, who writes that the mild-mannered Harvard president has 'positioned himself as an institutionalist and an opponent of illiberalism in all its forms: its Trumpian variant, yes, but also illiberal forces within his own university.' That makes him a partially unlikely target of Trump's crackdown on universities. But on campus at least, 'having been cast as a figure of resistance, Garber has earned the political capital to pursue his agenda.' The big picture: 'Inside the powerful task force spearheading Trump's assault on colleges, DEI,' by WaPo's Laura Meckler and colleagues: 'The administration established the [Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism] in February to counter what it describes as widespread failure by universities to protect Jewish students since the start of campus protests against the Israel-Gaza war. In reality, many of the task force's unprecedented demands and punishments have nothing to do with antisemitism. Instead, they seek hiring and programming changes to strip long-standing conservative targets including DEI and a liberal worldview from higher education.' Happy Friday afternoon. Thanks for reading Playbook PM. Drop me a line at eokun@ 9 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW 1. KNOWING THE DISAPPEARED: 'He Came to the U.S. to Support His Sick Child. He Was Detained. Then He Disappeared,' by Melissa Sanchez and colleagues for ProPublica, The Texas Tribune, Alianza Rebelde Investiga and Cazadores de Fake News: 'Most of the men [deported to El Salvador without due process] were not hiding from federal authorities but were instead moving through the nation's immigration system. They were either in the middle of their cases, which normally should have protected them from deportation, or they had already been ordered deported and should have first been given the option to be sent back to a country they chose.' 2. THAT'S GONNA HURT: Affordable Care Act rates are set to surge next year — with large plans in Illinois, Texas, Washington, Georgia and Rhode Island seeking double-digit increases as high as 27 percent, WSJ's Anna Wilde Mathews scooped. The insurers blame rising costs as well as federal subsidy cuts. But the changes could be a rude awakening for consumers who have mostly seen single-digit hikes in recent years. 3. CLIMATE FILES: 'Trump administration memo could strike fatal blow to wind and solar power,' by POLITICO's Zack Colman and Josh Siegel: 'The directive could have a much broader impact, affecting scores of projects on private land that must pass through or connect with projects on Interior-managed federal land … Some companies and clean energy advocates worried the directive would slow solar and wind approvals to a crawl by creating a bottleneck at [Secretary Doug] Burgum's office.' 4. RESCISSIONS FALLOUT: Having now made it through Congress, the rescissions package's $1.1 billion in cuts to public broadcasting funding have local news operations worried about their survival, NBC's Megan Lebowitz and Raquel Coronell Uribe report. The fear is especially acute for smaller and more rural stations, where leaders are already making tough decisions about what to cut, AP's Mark Thiessen and David Bauder report from Anchorage, Alaska. For kids, the result could be a faster shift to less educational content on YouTube, streaming and social media, WaPo's Tatum Hunter reports. GOP victory: For conservatives, cutting PBS and NPR money is the attainment of a goal Republicans have tried but failed to reach for decades, NYT's Jim Rutenberg reports. Democrats see it as part of a Trump crackdown on journalism. But public media was also more vulnerable as Americans' information ecosystems have moved away from local news, eroding their support from Republican politicians who protected the funding in previous debates. 5. DEMOCRACY WATCH: 'Trump-Driven Chaos Comes to U.S. Attorney's Offices in Waves,' by NYT's Santul Nerkar and Jonah Bromwich: 'On Wednesday afternoon, the highest ranking federal prosecutor in Manhattan, Jay Clayton, was blindsided [by the firing of Maurene Comey] … Mr. Trump has concentrated power within the Justice Department in Washington and, in two of the [New York-area] offices, has elevated loyalists with little prosecutorial experience, leading to confusion and plummeting morale within the rank and file. His moves raise the question of what, exactly, a U.S. attorney is empowered to do, beyond serving Mr. Trump's chosen agenda.' One to watch: Acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba could find out her fate at a federal judges' meeting Monday, just before her interim stint expires, the New Jersey Globe's David Wildstein reports. Habba told staffers that she hopes to stay in the role but doesn't know if she will. 6. ESCAPE TO ALCATRAZ: Trump is dead serious about trying to turn Alcatraz Island back into a new maximum-security prison — and the costliest option would top $2 billion, Axios' Marc Caputo scooped. 'Trump's interest in Alcatraz is motivated more by symbolism than necessity,' and it's early yet in the planning. Another possibility would cost $1 billion to build a smaller facility on part of the island. Trump hasn't made any final choices. 7. TRADING PLACES: Trump is taking a tougher tack in trade negotiations with the EU, demanding that a deal include tariffs of at least 15 to 20 percent, FT's Andy Bounds and colleagues report. That's higher than the 10 percent threshold they'd been discussing, and Trump doesn't want to move on auto tariffs either. The shift left European negotiator Maroš Šefčovič 'downbeat' in an evaluation today of how the talks are going. 'We don't want a trade war, but we don't know if the US will leave us a choice,' says one EU diplomat. 8. FED UP: As some conservatives seek to use concerns about the Fed's headquarters renovations as justification for Trump to fire Chair Jerome Powell, AP's Christopher Rugaber and Josh Boak report that Trump appointees pushed for more white marble to be included. In Trump's first term, his picks on the Commission of Fine Arts advocated for marble over the glass walls the Fed wanted, for aesthetic/historical reasons. 'The marble does not explain the roughly $600 million in cost overruns … But the roots of its extensive use further muddies the White House's attempts to use the renovation to paint the central banker as [a] profligate spender as a possible pretext to removing him.' 9. PLEADING THE FIFTH: Annie Tomasini today became the third former Joe Biden aide to invoke her Fifth Amendment right in the House Oversight Committee's probe of Biden's mental fitness. Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) slammed Tomasini as trying to hide the truth, while her attorney said there was no evidence of her wrongdoing — and that Biden made his end-of-term clemency decisions himself. The growing trend reflects Biden aides' 'fear that they have become targets for political retribution,' WaPo's Toluse Olorunnipa reports. Republicans allege a cover-up. TALK OF THE TOWN IN MEMORIAM — 'Ernest 'Pat' Furgurson, former Baltimore Sun columnist and historian, dies,' by The Baltimore Sun's Jacques Kelly: He was 'a former Baltimore Sun national affairs columnist, Washington bureau chief and a Civil War historian who also held posts in Moscow and Saigon … He was 95. … He was elected to Washington's Gridiron Club in 1977 and was its historian from 1992 to 2002.' — Andrew Schwartz, chief comms officer for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, died Wednesday. The center remembered him as 'a mentor, a coach, a brother to everyone in the CSIS family,' with a 'network in Washington [that] was far and wide.' Wrote Neal Urwitz, Schwartz was 'a Democrat who worked for Fox News, an adopted son of New Orleans who worked at a suit-and-tie think tank, and a digital-first communications pioneer who could barely turn on his computer.' OUT AND ABOUT — SPOTTED at Dentons' third annual summer bash Wednesday evening at Royal Sands Social Club: Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Reps. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), Jason Smith (R-Mo.), Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.), Mike Collins (R-Ga.), Scott DesJarlais (R-Tenn.), Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.), Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.), Rick Larsen (D-Wash.), Dave Joyce (R-Ohio), Andrew Garbarino (R-N.Y.), David Valadao (R-Calif.), Brian Babin (R-Texas), Andy Barr (R-Ky.), Vince Fong (R-Calif.) and Ron Estes (R-Kan.), Joe Crowley, Jeff Denham, Eric Tanenblatt, Matthew Cutts, Stephen Lawson, John Holahan, Mike Zolandz, Andrew Renteria, Terry McAuliffe and Kevin McCarthy. — Coinbase and Circle hosted a reception last night at The Ned to celebrate House passage of the GENIUS Act and CLARITY Act. SPOTTED: Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), Reps. French Hill (R-Ark.), Bryan Steil (R-Wis.), Andy Barr (R-Ky.), Jim Himes (D-Conn.), Jeff Crank (R-Colo.), Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), Tim Moore (R-N.C.), Troy Downing (R-Mont.), Nick Begich (R-Alaska), Dave Taylor (R-Ohio) and Bill Huizenga (R-Mich.), Brooke Bennett, Brooke Nethercott, Grace White, Megan Guiltinan, Max Raymond, Ashley Gunn, Julia Krieger, Kara Calvert, Nick Carr, Darin Carter, Veronica Hash, Robin Cook, Faryar Shirzad, Paul Grewal, Andrew Gallucci, Ashley Scott, Caroline Hill, Lulio Vargas-Cohen, Dante Disparte, Amy Dudley, Heath Tarbert, Erik Rosenblatt, Anthony De Abreu, Alex Côté and Garrett Brock. TRANSITION — Mark Wetjen is now global head of policy and regulatory affairs at OKX. He previously was a partner at Dentons and is a former acting CFTC chair. Did someone forward this email to you? Sign up here. Send Playbookers tips to playbook@ or text us on Signal here. 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