The Justice Department has announced the dismantling of three terrorist financing cyber-enabled campaigns. These actions represent the government’s largest-ever seizure of cryptocurrency relating to terrorism. These three terror finance campaigns – involving the al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing, al-Qaeda, and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) – all relied on sophisticated cyber-tools, including the…
(Updated to add the letter from the Chamber.) Last week, President Trump took Presidential action to act on payroll tax collections. Specifically, he ordered that the employee’s share of Social Security taxes be deferred beginning September 1, 2020, through December 31, 2020, for workers earning up to $104,000 per year. While it has been touted…
On August 6, 2020, the Senate adjourned without passing a stimulus package. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) wasn’t involved in the talks, leaving Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to work directly with Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. As of Friday…
