Morning Edition · Wednesday, August 5, 2026Published at 1:44 AM EDT · New York
Senators Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate the president's memecoin, and Republicans say Democratic objections are what stalled the bill.

The CLARITY Act, the crypto market-structure bill that would divide oversight of digital assets between the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, is absent from the Senate floor plan wit…
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Crypto Market-Structure Bill Stalls in the Senate
Ethics disputes over the president's personal crypto ventures keep displacing the substance of United States market-structure legislation, leaving digital-asset rules dependent on agency discretion rather than statute.
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