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Regulators under President Trump are taking a neutral position on crypto, retreating from the Biden administration’s more cautionary stance.

In 2022, the Biden administration’s retirement plan regulators placed a warning sign on cryptocurrencies, urging plan overseers to exercise “extreme care” before making digital coins available inside 401(k) plans.

“Cryptocurrencies are very different from typical retirement plan investments,” the Labor Department noted at the time, “and it can be extraordinarily difficult, even for expert investors, to evaluate these assets and separate the facts from the hype.”

The Trump administration’s regulators have decided to rescind this guidance.

The Labor Department, which oversees retirement plans, said on May 28 that it would adopt a neutral stance toward crypto, neither endorsing nor disapproving of plan managers who decide to include digital assets on 401(k) investment menus.

“The Biden administration’s Department of Labor made a choice to put their thumb on the scale,” said Lori Chavez-DeRemer, the labor secretary. “We’re

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