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Witnesses warn whistleblower fund and customer-protection programs face shortfalls without reauthorization fixes
House Committee on Agriculture · December 12, 2025
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Summary
Former CFTC staff and witnesses told the committee the customer protection and whistleblower fund could be depleted by large awards, risking furloughs for whistleblower office staff and reduced consumer outreach unless Congress or the agency adopts permanent fixes.
Witnesses told the committee the CFTC's customer-protection fund, which pays whistleblower awards and funds the whistleblower office, faces sustainability issues absent statutory or administrative fixes.
Rob Schwartz explained that the fund is used to pay awards and to run the whistleblower office; a…
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