A minority press release from the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs published prepared remarks by Senator Elizabeth Warren, the Committee’s Ranking Member, warning institutional investors that corruption under President Donald Trump is undermining investor trust and could threaten the functioning of U.S. financial markets. Speaking at the Council of Institutional Investors conference, she urged investment leaders to use their influence to demand stronger enforcement and anti-corruption action. Warren argued that enforcement has weakened across agencies and highlighted the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in particular, claiming it filed 2,700 enforcement actions under the prior chair versus 300 so far under the Trump administration, which she described as the lowest in a decade. Her remarks cited multiple examples of alleged favoritism and conflicted decision-making across tariffs, merger approvals, antitrust enforcement, defence contracting, crypto-related ventures and prediction markets, and she pointed to reported Trump family crypto holdings estimated at USD 3 billion. She called for Congress to pass stronger anti-corruption laws and for the SEC, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Department of Justice to enforce existing rules, adding that she would use tools available to her to push in that direction.

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