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This is Squawk Pod, and I'm CNVC producer Cameron Costa.

On today's episode, a late-night DHS funding deal in the Senate.

The bill that was passed last night also does not include reforms for ICE or immigration enforcement tactics that the Democrats had been seeking.

The bill has more road to travel, though, which means no relief quite yet for TSA agents, Coast Guard,

and others who have not gotten paid through the shutdown.

And the stock that surged over 1,500 percent in its first week of trading before sliding a bit back down.

Fundrise CEO Ben Miller is using his innovation fund to give investors access to private companies like OpenAI.

The idea of democratization, like when I first started it, people told me that's crazy.

It was a now, it's novel.

And I think the reception from the public market

is shown it validates the strategy of democratizing access,

bridging this gap between public and private,

and doing it in a low-cost regulated wrapper.

Plus how to live a meaningful life.

Dave Evans of the Stanford Life Design Lab on Designing a Life, we'll be proud to have lived.

All of us, both of you, contain far more aliveness than one lifetime permits you to live out.

All that and much more this Friday, March 27th, 2026.

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