How the Crypto Industry’s Political Spending Is Paying Off
Posted on: Apr 12, 2025 14:31 IST | Posted by: Nytimes
Federal lawmakers who benefited from crypto largess in the 2024 election are speedily advancing the industry’s agenda.
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At the end of a three-hour hearing last month, Senator Ruben Gallego, Democrat of Arizona, sided with a group of Republicans in a hotly contested debate. He voted to advance the GENIUS Act, a bill backed by the cryptocurrency industry.
“It’s clear that digital assets are here to stay,” Mr. Gallego said after the Senate Banking Committee hearing. Breaking from the committee’s top Democrat, he called the bill a “step in the right direction.”
The vote, 18 to 6, was only preliminary, advancing a bill that will require approval from the full Senate. But in the crypto world, it was celebrated as a moment of vindication.
Mr. Gallego is part of an increasingly influential cohort in Congress: beneficiaries of the crypto industry’s largess. During a tight Senate race last year, he was aided by $10 million from super PACs financed by three large crypto companies, including the Coinbase digital currency exchange. The money funded ads that promoted Mr. Gallego’s military service and support for border enforcement.
Now he and dozens of other lawmakers supported by the super PACs are taking steps in Congress to advance crypto priorities, handing a series of long-awaited victories to an industry with an extensive history of fraud and volatility.
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