Departing CFTC Democrat Laments Turmoil Engulfing Agency

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On her final day at the CFTC, Democratic Commissioner Kristin Johnson painted a bleak picture about the future of her agency as it grapples with big staff cuts, a leadership vacuum and uncertainty caused by the White House’s attempts to rein in the administrative state. The turmoil, she underscored, comes as the perennially underfunded commodities regul…