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Washington D.C. – This week, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) filed a proposed rule change application to the Trump administration Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to allow the listing of Trump Media & Technology Group’s new Bitcoin-Ethereum ETF – a proposal sullied with conflicts of interest on both sides of the equation in favor of President Trump’s business, government watchdog Accountable.US has found:  

  •  The NYSE is chaired by Jeffrey Sprecher, the billionaire husband of Trump cabinet official Kelly Loeffler, the Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration. Notably, the couple has previously faced controversy for suspicious trades they made in 2020, ahead of the market downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

  •  On the receiving end of NYSE’s rule change request is SEC Chair Paul Atkins, a crypto industry insider who held as much as $6 million in crypto interests ahead of his confirmation, including a company deeply involved in Trump Media’s new crypto activity. Prior to his confirmation, Atkins disclosed a stake of up to $500,000 in Anchorage Digital, which served as a financial custodian in Trump Media’s recent $2.5 billion fund raise from institutional investors in May 2025, called “one of the largest Bitcoin treasury plays by a public company.”

“While working Americans keep waiting for a single specific policy from the Trump administration to lower costs, Donald Trump has stayed laser focused on using the power of the presidency to further rig the system for his own financial benefit,” said Accountable.US Executive Director Tony Carrk. “President Trump’s self-first agenda will likely pay off again under this proposal to fast-track his latest crypto scheme on Wall Street while Trump loyalists are deeply tied to both at the largest U.S. stock exchange and the leading financial regulator. President Trump’s ever-sprawling efforts to enrich himself from the White House perch should give his allies in Congress pause before passing the Trump budget plan stripping health and food security from millions of working people, seniors and veterans.” 

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