Trump nominates two bipartisan candidates to fill vacant CFTC seats
President Donald Trump nominated two candidates to fill long-standing vacancies at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The nominees include staffers from the Senate Agriculture Committee. The nominations come approximately one week after election results and follow an extended period in which Michael Selig served as the agency's lone commissioner while overseeing major prediction market regulatory changes. The nominees' specific names and committee roles were not detailed in the available source text.
The CFTC still has four open seats, so even two confirmed commissioners would leave the agency below full strength during its busiest prediction-market regulatory season. Selig remains the only sitting commissioner while the CFTC pursues twin swap-rule proposals, a forced-rollback order on state geoblocks, and an active probe of Kalshi's self-certification.
A partial board slows every vote that splits along party lines or pits federal preemption against state criminal charges. The Senate Agriculture Committee connection suggests the nominees understand the commodity-law framework, but confirmation timelines in a polarized chamber are uncertain. Platform operators cannot assume a fully staffed CFTC will rescue them from Utah's December 4 felony arraignment or the pending geoblock collision with state judges.