According to recent reports, White House officials and cryptocurrency industry executives are planning to attend a virtual roundtable on digital asset policy hosted by crypto-supporting Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) on Monday.
The meeting appears to be a follow-up to Rep. Khanna’s roundtable in July, an in-person meeting on the same topic that also featured billionaire Mark Cuban and New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. This time around, White House officials, including National Economic Council Director Lael Brainard, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Bruce Reed, and outgoing senior adviser Anita Dunn, are expected to join the virtual meeting, according to Politico Pro.
Dunn is the first of Biden’s inner circle to step down from the administration, Politico recently reported. Instead, Dunn will advise the largest pro-Harris super PAC, which plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars between now and November to support Harris’s campaign.
Dunn attended the July meeting in her personal capacity, and impressed industry leaders with her participation. “She was very engaged, actively taking notes, all that kind of stuff,” Crypto Council for Innovation CEO Sheila Warren told The Block at the time. “For a government official of that caliber to be that engaged for an hour or more… is pretty amazing and unusual.” Dunn herself described the meeting as “nice and candid.”
The report notes that Harris campaign officials were invited, but it is unclear whether the campaign will send a representative. The report also notes that no other lawmakers besides Khanna, such as Gillibrand, are expected to attend this time.
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