U.S. Crypto Insiders Courting Vice President Harris Chase Whispers of Her Openness

Industry insiders have balked this week at some of the news of Harris’ campaign hires, because the officials — including President Joe Biden’s former director of his National Economic Council, Brian Deese, and Bharat Ramamurti, who was the council’s deputy director — have been associated with past actions against crypto. She’s also tapped Brian Nelson, a former senior Treasury Department who spent some of his tenure scrutinizing the role of digital assets in terrorism and illicit finance, but she also brought on David Plouffe, a high-profile Democratic political mind who has more recently advised crypto companies. Because Harris hasn’t announced her position, these hiring decisions have been read as a proxy.