The shutdown entered its sixth day on Monday, with the SEC, CFTC and other agencies operating with restrictions and limited staff.
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Turner Wright is a senior policy reporter at Cointelegraph, focusing on US laws and regulations related to digital assets. He writes features and news stories for the website and Cointelegraph Magazine, and is sometimes featured in one of the publication’s podcast series. He holds a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and started as a freelance journalist covering issues in Japan and around the world, joining the Cointelegraph team in 2020. Turner has no crypto holdings above Cointelegraph’s disclosure threshold of $1,000.
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