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12 Reasons Why President Trump Will Fire SEC Chairman Paul Atkins by Year-End (With Receipts)

May 11, 2026, 8:28 am SEC, Top

Paul Atkins is not surviving the year as Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He will be gone, gone, gone.

That’s not some random hot take. It’s the thesis of an exhaustive, 74-page, 40,000-word, long-form, meticulously footnoted forensic dosier I’m publishing today entitled:

“12 Reasons Why President Trump Will Fire SEC Chairman Paul Atkins by Year-End (With Receipts)”

Every factual claim is hyperlinked to a primary source (over 1,100 hyperlinks), painstakingly assembled from Federal Register filings, federal court dockets, U.S. Treasury correspondence, FBI cyber alerts, Financial Stability Board reports, on-chain Tron forensics, GAO findings, four ranking-member document demands sitting in Atkins’s inbox, the fine print of the very enforcement settlements Atkins himself has authorized and a broad range of other devastating sources.

The receipts are public and in plain view. The timeline is short. The only question is which Friday.

Source: 12 Reasons Why President Trump Will Fire SEC Chairman Paul Atkins by Year-End (With Receipts)

SEC Chair Paul Atkins Makes History as First Sitting Commissioner to Address the Bitcoin Conference

April 27, 2026, 8:00 am SEC, Top

No sitting Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chair has previously appeared at the annual Bitcoin conference, which is set to draw more than 40,000 participants this year to the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas. Atkins’ decision to attend potentially signals the degree to which bitcoin has moved from the regulatory periphery to the center of U.S. financial policy.

The backdrop is a series of regulatory actions that represent the most substantive shift in U.S. crypto policy in over a decade. In April, the SEC published a digital asset taxonomy distinguishing five categories of crypto assets, with four of the five falling outside the definition of securities under federal law. The agency has also proposed an innovation exemption giving market participants a defined, compliant pathway to begin facilitating tokenized securities trading onchain.

Speaking at The Economic Club of Washington on April 21, Atkins stated the agency “will not stand idly by and watch innovations develop overseas while our capital markets remain stagnant,” framing the regulatory reset explicitly as a matter of competitive necessity for the U.S.

Source: SEC Chair Paul Atkins Makes History as First Sitting Commissioner to Address the Bitcoin Conference

Number Go Down and other Schadenfreude

February 19, 2026, 7:31 am SEC, Top

Commissioner Peirce: …Now let’s address the elephant in the room: what do you think about the falling crypto prices of late? Is it time to focus our attention on this issue? Should regulators panic or even care that prices are down? Chairman Atkins: It is not the regulator’s job to worry about the daily swings of the markets; it’s our…

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SEC Chair Says Regulation Continues Despite Shutdown

October 24, 2025, 7:28 am SEC, Top

The ongoing government shutdown reportedly hasn’t completely shut down the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The regulator is still monitoring the markets for signs of manipulative behavior, SEC Chair Paul Atkins said in a Wednesday (Oct. 22) CNBC interview. “Even during the shutdown, as we conduct our surveillance on the marketplace, we have stopped trading on eight foreign companies on…

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SEC Staffing: Senators Want Info on Impact of Cuts : TheCorporateCounsel. net Blog

April 24, 2025, 7:31 am SEC, Top

When new SEC Chairman Paul Atkins showed up for his first day of work, he had a letter on his desk from half a dozen Democratic senators asking about whether the SEC would investigate “actions by President Trump, donors, and other potential insiders that may constitute market manipulation, insider trading, or other violations of federal securities laws in connection with…

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Paul S. Atkins Sworn In as SEC Chairman

April 23, 2025, 8:06 am SEC, Top

Paul S. Atkins was sworn into office today as the 34th Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Chairman Atkins was nominated by President Donald J. Trump on January 20, 2025, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 9, 2025. “I am honored by the trust and confidence President Trump and the Senate have placed in me to lead…

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Senate Confirms Paul Atkins as SEC Chair

April 10, 2025, 7:41 am SEC, Top

The U.S. Senate confirmed Paul Atkins on Wednesday as the next chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The vote was 52-44. “We welcome Paul Atkins as the next Chairman of the SEC,” acting Chair Mark T. Uyeda and Commissioners Hester M. Peirce and Caroline A. Crenshaw said in a statement. “A veteran of our Commission, we look forward…

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It’s Official: Gary Gensler Is Out at the SEC, and Crypto-Friendly Mark Uyeda Is In

January 21, 2025, 7:28 am SEC, Top

Commissioner Mark Uyeda will take over running the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as the agency awaits the Senate confirmation on President Donald Trump’s pick for the permanent role, Paul Atkins. Acting Chair Uyeda, who has been a clear supporter of relaxing the regulator’s pursuit of the crypto industry alongside fellow Republican Commissioner Hester Peirce, once served Atkins as a…

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