2026年2月12日 美国东部时间下午5:37 / 路透社 / 道格拉斯·吉利森报道
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华盛顿，2月12日（路透社） – 美国证券交易委员会（SEC）主席周四在国会作证时表示，在白宫要求下去年大幅裁员后，华尔街最高监管机构正致力于恢复部分员工岗位。
“我们在不同部门存在人员缺口，因此我们将填补这些缺口，”美国证券交易委员会主席保罗·阿特金斯在参议院听证会上表示。
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他还驳斥了民主党议员的指控，即该机构对与总统唐纳德·特朗普有联系的加密货币公司和企业家撤销了执法行动。
特朗普去年上任后，作为与前顾问埃隆·马斯克合作的“政府效率部”计划的一部分，要求联邦政府进行“大规模”裁员。SEC提供了几轮自愿离职计划，导致员工大量流失。截至一年前，一些关键部门的员工数量减少了近20%，批评者称这可能会削弱SEC监管市场和应对危机的能力。
“在我加入SEC之前，很多人是自愿离职或通过离职计划离开的，所以我正在查看我们的员工人数，我认为我们在执法部门有一支非常优秀的团队，”阿特金斯说。
SEC提供更多自愿减员方案
路透社获取的一份备忘录显示，在阿特金斯加入该机构之前，SEC曾向白宫辩称，自愿裁员减少了大规模解雇员工的必要性，而政府在其他机构也采取了类似做法。
此后，该机构提供了更多自愿减员方案，而特朗普政府则限制了各机构在裁员后重新雇人的能力。
民主党人和其他批评者指责SEC撤销执法行动是出于政治偏袒，因为与特朗普有关联的加密货币公司向其提供了政治捐款（特朗普本人也是该行业的企业家）。
阿特金斯简要承认，在总统赦免某人的情况下，SEC的行动可能会受到限制。
“如果总统赦免了某人或给予了特赦，那么事情就变得非常困难，”他说。
他驳斥了存在不当政治影响的指控，并补充称，撤销案件的决定是在阿特金斯宣誓就职前由该机构代理主席做出的，主要涉及未能向委员会注册证券的问题，他称政策制定者将其视为“通过执法进行监管”。
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Wall Street regulator to restore some jobs after cuts, chair says
February 12, 2026 5:37 PM UTC / Reuters / By Douglas Gillison
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Paul Atkins, Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), delivers remarks at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., December 2, 2025. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/File Photo
WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) – Wall Street’s top regulator is working to restore some of its workforce following last year’s deep cuts at the behest of the White House, the agency’s chief told Congress on Thursday.
“We have gaps in different divisions, so we will fill that,” Paul Atkins, chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, said during Senate testimony.
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He also rejected charges by Democratic lawmakers that the agency had dropped enforcement actions against crypto companies and entrepreneurs with ties to President Donald Trump.
After taking office last year, Trump called for “large-scale” workforce cuts across the federal government as part of the Department of Government Efficiency initiative with former adviser Elon Musk. The SEC offered several rounds of buyouts, resulting in a staff exodus that, as of a year ago, had depleted some key agency components by nearly 20%, causing critics to say this could hamper the SEC’s ability to police markets and respond to crises.
“A lot of these people left voluntarily or through buyouts before I arrived at the SEC, so I’m looking at our numbers of employees, and I think we have a very good group of people in enforcement,” Atkins said.
SEC HAS OFFERED MORE VOLUNTARY REDUCTIONS
Before Atkins arrived at the agency, the SEC argued to the White House that the voluntary cuts lessened the need for dismissing staff en masse, as the administration had done at other agencies, according to a memo obtained by Reuters.
The agency since then has offered more voluntary workforce reductions and the Trump administration has placed limits on agencies’ ability to rehire after staffing cuts.
Democrats and other critics have accused the SEC of dropping enforcement actions as a political favor to crypto companies that have made political donations favoring Trump, himself an entrepreneur in the industry.
Atkins briefly acknowledged the SEC’s actions could be limited in cases in which the president had granted pardons.
“If the president has pardoned someone or given clemency, then it becomes very difficult,” he said.
He rejected accusations of undue political influence, adding that the decision to drop cases had been made by the agency’s acting chair before Atkins’ swearing-in and mostly concerned matters of failing to register securities with the commission, which he said policymakers viewed as “regulation through enforcement.”
Reporting by Douglas Gillison in Washington Editing by Rod Nickel.
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