Fox Reporter: Trump May Choose Two Democratic Members More Aligned with His Policies for SEC

【Fox Reporter: Trump May Choose Two Democratic Members More Aligned with His Policies for SEC】Golden Finance reports that Fox reporter Eleanor Terrett stated on platform X that Democratic SEC member Jaime Lizarraga will resign on January 17, and after Trump's inauguration, there will only be one Democrat left in the committee, Caroline Crenshaw. This means that there will be three vacant positions to fill by January 20. It also means that before these nominees are confirmed, the Republicans on the SEC will have a 2-1 majority (Uyeda and Peirce are Republicans, Crenshaw is a Democrat). Trump may choose two Democratic members more aligned with his policies; a past precedent is that the minority party recommends minority candidates to the president, which makes the confirmation process easier, but the president is not obliged to adopt this suggestion. Trump could also choose to appoint independents to these positions. The rule is that there cannot be more than three members from the same party as the president on the committee. For example, Jay Clayton, the former chairman during Trump's first term, was an independent.