Goldman Sachs flies to Washington as CEO Solomon pushes crypto rules

Goldman Sachs flew from Teterboro to Washington Dulles on Thursday morning, a 41-minute hop aboard its Gulfstream G280, tail N280WS. The short trip from New Jersey to the capital is a well-worn route for the bank's executives, who keep a regular presence in the policy corridor.

The same week this flight touched down, Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon told the World Liberty Forum at Mar-a-Lago that "it is very, very important that we codify a rule-based system" for cryptocurrency in the United States, per a CNBC report from the event. Solomon warned that firms expecting to operate without rules should "move to El Salvador," while acknowledging his bank is "super-interested in" crypto business. The comments came as the Senate's CLARITY Act remains stalled over a dispute about stablecoin rewards.

Goldman Sachs has been shuttling between Teterboro and Dulles regularly this month — this is the third such trip in June alone. The bank's fleet of two Gulfstreams supports a dealmaking machine that has managed over $1 trillion in M&A in the first half of 2026, a record pace, according to Dealogic data cited by Goldman Sachs in a LinkedIn post. The Washington run suggests the policy side of the business is as busy as the banking side.