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Morning Edition · Friday, August 7, 2026Published at 10:25 AM EDT · New York
CLARITY Act Vote Slips to September as Senate Leaves for Recess Without Resolving Ethics Dispute
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said the market-structure bill will be "queued up first thing" when lawmakers return, but Democrats are still pressing for stronger ethics rules covering officials' crypto holdings, including the Trump family's crypto ventures.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune confirmed the CLARITY Act, the bill meant to establish which U.S. federal regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) or the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), has jurisdiction over wh…
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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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