President Donald Trump threw his support behind the federal agency overseeing prediction markets on Tuesday, amid a growing battle between Washington and the states over who should regulate the rapidly expanding industry.
Trump backed the authority of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the federal agency responsible for overseeing derivatives and financial markets, arguing that prediction markets should remain under federal jurisdiction.
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