Eleanor Mueller
@Eleanor_Mueller
White House reporter @Semafor covering all things economy. Proud @POLITICO and @MerrillCollege alum. Let’s talk: emueller@semafor.com or Signal (link below).
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NEWS with @BurgessEv: Shaheen has a hold on the Trump administration's $2.8 billion sale to Israel — and has since July, @Semafor is told.
Inbox: Just about every banking group has joined forces on a letter explaining why the latest text of the Senate crypto bill doesn't do enough to address their concerns over stablecoin yields.
"A circuit breaker that activates only after substantial deposit flight has already occurred is not a safeguard at all."
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Exclusive: World Liberty Financial, the Trump family’s flagship crypto venture, says its trust company has received preliminary approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to become a bank.
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JPMorgan Chase ended its banking relationship with Polymarket as questions about prediction markets and debanking swirl.
News: Executives from Coinbase, a16z, Ripple & Chainlink plus Kalshi & Paradigm (a Kalshi backer) as well as Digital Chamber are among those expected to attend Wednesday's meeting at the WH, people familiar with it tell me.
Trump plus Selig & Atkins are also expected to partake, some of the people said, but it's unclear whether all will. The people described Wednesday as a kick-off for the inaugural meeting of CFTC's 35-person Innovation Advisory Committee on Thursday, which organizers had initially hoped to host at the WH earlier in the summer.
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Trump administration officials and allies suspect US Attorney for DC Jeanine Pirro might be trying to get back on President Donald Trump’s good side by convening a rare special grand jury in the district per @ShelbyTalcott
Some officials see the special grand jury move as an obvious ploy to “save her job at all costs,” as one administration official put it
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new - I asked top tech companies whose CEOs have allied with Trump about a new DOJ memo signaling an executive privilege assertion over a wide swath of Trump comms w/ the private sector
They're so far staying quiet
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As Trump approaches the midpoint of his term, there’s mounting evidence that he has gotten the better of the markets.
My latest column:
The Trump administration has accused China of dodging tariffs.
New: Sources across the Trump administration and in Congress have questions about executing Trump’s plans to sell F-35 fighter jets to Turkey; some doubt that Turkey will ever take the needed steps for F-35 reinstatement.
At the center of the saga is the Russian S-400 system — there’s multiple potential paths forward, but no one path has been decided on, resulting in a limbo state for the deal. W/ @Eleanor_Mueller @LMorganbesser
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News: Bosnian Serbs have spent at least $9M lobbying Trump since his inauguration, per a @Semafor analysis of DOJ filings.
Now, the Croats are entering the fray by tapping Mercury Public Affairs — a sign Čović could "be a little alarmed that Dodik is buying up all these friends in Washington."
With @AdrianElimian:
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New: Türkiye's efforts to buy F-35s from the US are "at a standstill," we're told, as people familiar with the talks describe its efforts to offload its S-400 to UAE as stalled.
With @LMorganbesser and @ShelbyTalcott:
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New: Karoline Leavitt will leave the Trump administration at the end of the month to spend more time with her kids. Trump says she’ll shift to an outside advisor role:
Lettuce prices fell 16.4% on month
BREAKING:
CPI COMES IN RIGHT IN LINE
Economists had had expected a 0.2% MoM increase in core, and a 0.1% increase in headline
news - Iran War votes starting to show up in campaign ads. VoteVets PAC going after Sen. Sullivan with new ad buy tying rising prices to his votes against reining in Trump's war powers
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Today, @FinCENnews issued a final rule that permanently removes the requirement for U.S. companies and U.S. persons to report beneficial ownership information. FinCEN today also announced that it will delete previously reported information by U.S. persons from the beneficial ownership information database.
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News: College sports is Trump's latest legislative obsession. He's dialing up senators and he's asking Nick Saban to whip undecided senators on the Cruz/Cantwell Protect College Sports Act
“This is a priority for him, and not everything that we do up there is of paramount importance,” Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., told Semafor of Trump. “He’s a sports guy … some politicians feign interest in ‘sportsball,’ that’s not him."
Would be one of Trump's biggest bipartisan achievements as POTUS -- and normal people are actually paying attention to it
@ShelbyTalcott
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News: Shaheen, Wicker, Grassley & Durbin plus Keating & Turner are calling on the administration to impose sanctions on Bosnian Serb officials in line with this year's NDAA, per a statement shared first with @Semafor, after Republika Srpska authorities interrogated authors of a report on genocide denial.
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News: Another law enforcement group is putting its weight behind the latest draft of the Senate’s crypto bill amid a tussle over illicit finance bogging down efforts to bring the measure to the floor.
@MjrCitiesChiefs will send this letter this AM, I’m told:
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