在唐纳德·特朗普总统声称与共和党顽固分子达成协议的一天后,众议院在推进三项加密法案方面再次陷入停滞。
投票推进加密法案-清晰度,天才和反CBDC监控法案-仍然开放周三下午。目前有3名共和党人投反对票,16名共和党人拒绝投票。
由于对该规则的投票仍未结束,议长迈克·约翰逊正在众议院礼仪办公室与强硬派和各委员会成员挤在一起。众议员拜伦·唐纳兹、劳伦·博贝特、维多利亚·施帕茨和丹·默瑟被发现离开房间。当立法者找到前进的道路时,一车车的食物和酒被带进了房间。
周二,特朗普表示,加密是其政府的重中之重,他表示,他与当天早些时候投票反对加密法案的共和党人达成了协议。强硬派声称,该协议包括重做《清晰法案》中的一项条款,以加强反央行数字货币。
“根据这项协议,规则委员会将在今天晚些时候再次召开会议,在清晰度立法中添加明确、强烈的反央行数字货币(CBDC)条款。这是确保美国人免受政府过度干预其金融隐私的重要一步,”自由核心小组主席安迪·哈里斯在x上的一篇帖子中说
周二早些时候,十几名众议院共和党人反对川普和约翰逊,以阻止该立法在众议院推进——加入整个民主党党团——并至少暂时冻结了众议院的活动。
在规则投票之前,在近一个小时的程序性投票中,戏剧在众议院上演。一些共和党人投了反对票,但最终都改变了立场。
约翰逊在投票期间与坚持己见的人挤在一起,包括众议员奇普·罗伊、马乔里·泰勒·格林、安娜·宝琳娜·卢娜、伊莱·克莱恩、拜伦·唐纳兹、维多利亚·斯帕兹、斯科特·佩里、安迪·比格斯和安迪·奥格勒斯。谈话有时显得很紧张。
投票在白宫所谓的“加密周”进行
特朗普,谁推出了他自己的密码迷因硬币今年早些时候,最近说他是一个“密码迷”,并称其为美国“主导”的“非常强大的行业”
“我是总统。我在那里做的是建立一个非常重要的行业,”特朗普上个月说。“如果我们没有,中国也会有。”
曾经是密码怀疑论者,特朗普和他的家人完全沉浸在加密货币市场中,不仅开发了$TRUMP meme币,还开发了比特币挖矿公司、stablecoin公司和加密储备。
Crypto bills lock House in stalemate as GOP hard-liners defy Trump
A day after President Donald Trump claimed a deal was reached with GOP holdouts, the House is yet again at a standstill over moving forward on a trio of crypto bills.
The vote to advance the crypto bills -- CLARITY, GENIUS and Anti CBDC Surveillance Act -- remains open Wednesday afternoon. There are currently three GOP no votes and 16 Republicans withholding their votes.
Speaker Mike Johnson is huddling with hard-liners and members of various committees in the ceremonial office off the House floor as a vote on the rule remains open. Reps. Byron Donalds, Lauren Boebert, Victoria Spartz and Dan Meuser were spotted leaving the room. As lawmakers find a path forward, carts of food and alcohol have been brought into the room.
On Tuesday, Trump -- who has said crypto is a top priority for his administration -- said he made a deal with the Republicans who voted against the crypto bills earlier in the day. Hard-liners claimed the deal included redoing a provision in the CLARITY Act to strengthen anti-Central Bank Digital Currency.
“Under this agreement, the Rules Committee will reconvene later today to add clear, strong anti–Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) provisions to the CLARITY legislation This is an important step to ensure Americans are protected from government overreach into their financial privacy,” Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris said in a post on X.
Earlier Tuesday, a dozen House Republicans bucked Trump and Johnson to prevent the legislation from advancing on the floor -- joining the entire Democratic caucus -- and, at least temporarily, freezing activity in the House.
Prior to the rule vote, drama played out on the House floor during a nearly hourlong procedural vote. Several Republicans were voting in opposition, but all ultimately flipped.
Johnson was huddling with the holdouts during the vote including Reps. Chip Roy, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Anna Paulina Luna, Eli Crane, Byron Donalds, Victoria Spartz, Scott Perry, Andy Biggs and Andy Ogles. The conversations appeared at times tense.
The votes come during what the White House is calling "Crypto Week."
Trump, wholaunched his own crypto meme coinearlier this year,recently saidhe is a "fan of crypto" and called it a "very powerful industry" that the U.S. has "dominated."
"I'm president. And what I did do there is build an industry that's very important," Trump said last month. "If we didn't have it, China would."
Once a crypto skeptic,Trump and his family have fully immersed themselves in the cryptocurrency marketplace, developing not only the $TRUMP meme coin, but also a bitcoin mining firm, a stablecoin firm and a crypto reserve.