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GOP Rep. Tuberville Says DOL Shouldn't Block Crypto Use In 401(k) Plans: Report

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GOP Rep. Tuberville Says DOL Shouldn't Block Crypto Use In 401k Plans: Report

Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville will submit legislation on Wednesday that seeks to prevent the Department of Labor (DOL) from limiting businesses and financial firms from including cryptocurrencies as part of 401(k) retirement plans.

Florida Senator Byron Donalds is the sponsor of the bill in the House.

Both Tuberville and Donalds are Republicans.

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The move is a reaction to the DOL, which has threatened to investigate retirement plan administrators if they invested employees' money in digital assets.

"The federal government shouldn’t choose winners and losers in the investment game,” Tuberville said, according to Politico.

The downward spiral, bankruptcy, and ongoing investigation of FTX — previously one of the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchanges — is what prompted the DOL to scrutinize the act of putting retirement funds into cryptocurrencies in the first place.

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