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  • Fifield, 40, graduated in 2008 with a Bachelor of Arts in Language and Literature from Auburn University at Montgomery in Alabama. She has spent more than a decade working in Washington, D.C., in a range of policy and communications roles.

    In 2023, she briefly served as a digital marketing director for Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley for two months. Haley, the former South Carolina governor, ran for president against Donald Trump in the 2024 electionbefore dropping out in March.

    Fifield was the digital marketing director for Stand for America, an advocacy group founded by Haley that “promotes freedom at home and strength abroad.”

    Her longest stint, according to her LinkedIn, was at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank that later authored Project 2025, a conservative playbook for the Trump administration. She served as a social media manager at the think tank for over six years, from September 2015 to April 2022.

    Prior to that, she worked at another think tank, the American Action Forum, which identifies as a “center-right think tank” focused on domestic economy policy.

    Fifield was also a co-host of The LadyBrains, a Ricochet podcast alongside other female conservative commentators, which stopped airing in late 2021.








  • The S&P 500 is Wall Street’s most ​widely followed benchmark. Passive S&P 500 index funds with trillions of dollars in assets would have been forced to buy up SpaceX shares had ‌rules been ⁠changed to admit it to the index.

    “It speaks highly of the credibility of S&P Dow Jones Indices to be rules-based and make sure there’s profitability before entrance to the index,” said Art Hogan, chief market strategist at B. Riley Wealth.

    “Making exceptions because companies are so large and have been private so long yet are still not profitable, didn’t make a great deal of sense.”

    Nasdaq has already ​made changes that will make it ​easier for SpaceX, Anthropic and ⁠other newly listed megacaps to join its Nasdaq 100 (.NDX), opens new tab index.

    Nasdaq 100 index funds will be forced to buy a sizeable portion of publicly available SpaceX shares when the company joins that ​index.



  • Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.) was the only other member who spoke out in favor of Khanna’s amendment, pointing out that current laws prohibit transfers of weapons to countries committing war crimes and violating international law, but Section 224 makes no such provisions, and takes oversight away, despite what some of her colleagues were arguing on Thursday.

    She raised the issue of Israeli-owned Pegasus spyware, which was blacklisted for its use against Americans. “Two administrations from both parties left it on that list, and that same company is right now trying to buy its way into the American market, fusing our defense and technology sectors together permanently,” she said.

    A proposal “with no conditions in the exact area where we have already been burned (Section 224) is reckless on its own terms, and it would do it through a must-pass bill with almost no oversight and with none of the human rights conditions that govern the rest of security assistance," Jacobs added.

    Still, it’s probably the Democrats’ fault somehow.