{"id":73146,"date":"2026-02-19T13:31:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T13:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=73146"},"modified":"2026-02-19T13:31:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T13:31:36","slug":"elizabeth-warren-says-fed-treasury-shouldnt-use-taxpayer-dollars-to-bail-out-crypto-billionaires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=73146","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Warren Says Fed, Treasury Shouldn&#8217;t &#8216;Use Taxpayer Dollars To Bail Out Crypto Billionaires&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Sen. <strong>Elizabeth Warren<\/strong> (D-Mass.) urged Treasury Secretary <strong>Scott Bessent<\/strong> and Fed Chair <strong>Jerome Powell<\/strong> to confirm they won\u2019t use taxpayer money to bail out crypto billionaires as <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) trades down 50% from October highs.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Bailout Warning<\/h3>\n<p>Warren <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/02\/18\/warren-fed-treasury-crypto-billionaires-bailout-trump.html\">wrote<\/a> to Bessent and Powell warning that any government intervention to stabilize Bitcoin would \u201cdisproportionately benefit crypto billionaires\u201d and could directly enrich President <strong>Trump<\/strong> and his family through <strong>World Liberty Financial<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/WLFI-USD\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"WLFI\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: WLFI)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The letter highlighted recent losses as <strong>Strategy <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/MSTR\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"MSTR\" data-exchange=\"NASDAQ\" rel=\"noopener\">(NASDAQ:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/MSTR\">MSTR<\/a>) CEO <strong>Michael Saylor\u2019s<\/strong> firm has seen shares fall nearly 20% since year-start.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <strong>Binance<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BNB\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BNB-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/bnb\/usd\">BNB<\/a>) founder <strong>Changpeng Zhao<\/strong> reportedly lost close to $30 billion and <strong>Coinbase <\/strong><a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"MSTR\" data-exchange=\"NASDAQ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/MSTR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(NASDAQ:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" ...><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/02\/50717277\/elizabeth-warren-says-fed-treasury-shouldnt-use-taxpayer-dollars-to-bail-out-crypto-billion?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Elizabeth\" warren says fed treasury shouldn taxpayer dollars to bail out crypto billionaires>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) urged Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed Chair Jerome Powell to confirm they won\u2019t use taxpayer money to bail out crypto billionaires as Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) trades down 50% from October highs. The Bailout Warning Warren wrote to Bessent and Powell warning that any government intervention to stabilize Bitcoin would \u201cdisproportionately [&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-73146","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\/73146","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=73146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}