{"id":29147,"date":"2025-05-29T04:31:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T04:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=29147"},"modified":"2025-05-29T04:31:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T04:31:32","slug":"bitcoin-in-your-401k-trumps-labor-department-rolls-back-biden-era-guidance-on-crypto-in-the-employer-sponsored-retirement-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=29147","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin In Your 401(k)? Trump&#8217;s Labor Department Rolls Back Biden-Era Guidance On Crypto In The Employer-Sponsored Retirement Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The\u00a0Labor Department lifted restrictions that previously discouraged the inclusion of\u00a0cryptocurrencies in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/money\/what-is-a-401k\">401(k)<\/a> retirement\u00a0plans on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened:<\/strong>\u00a0 The Department of Labor&#8217;s <strong>Employee Benefits Security Administration<\/strong> rescinded a Biden-era guidance that had urged plan fiduciaries to exercise \u201cextreme care\u201d\u00a0before adding cryptocurrency to investment\u00a0menus, marking a return to the department\u2019s \u201chistorically neutral\u201d position on such investments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy rescinding the 2022 guidance, the department reaffirms its neutral stance,\u00a0neither endorsing, nor disapproving of, plan fiduciaries who conclude that the inclusion of cryptocurrency in a plan&#8217;s investment menu is appropriate,\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/25\/05\/45661911\/bitcoin-in-retirement-plans-labor-department-rescinds-biden-era-guidance-on-401k-crypto-inclusion\" alt=\"Bitcoin\" in your trump labor department rolls back biden-era guidance on crypto the employer-sponsored retirement plan>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Labor Department lifted restrictions that previously discouraged the inclusion of\u00a0cryptocurrencies in 401(k) retirement\u00a0plans on Wednesday. What Happened:\u00a0 The Department of Labor&#8217;s Employee Benefits Security Administration rescinded a Biden-era guidance that had urged plan fiduciaries to exercise \u201cextreme care\u201d\u00a0before adding cryptocurrency to investment\u00a0menus, marking a return to the department\u2019s \u201chistorically neutral\u201d position on such investments. \u201cBy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-29147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}