CLARITY Act Reaches Critical Senate Threshold as Trump Meets Lawmakers, Lummis Prepares Formal Introduction
The CLARITY Act is moving through an increasingly narrow Senate window toward a floor vote as ethics disputes, opposition coalitions, and shifting passage odds keep the bill's fate uncertain.
President Trump met with senators to address the CLARITY Act's ethics provisions, with reports describing the Thursday meeting as 'hugely positive.' Senator Lummis formally introduced the bill, aiming to deliver XRP legal certainty before the August recess. Coinbase publicly backed the legislation, Senate Democrats continued negotiations, and the bill's passage odds shifted as both sides intensified lobbying.
CLARITY Act: Trump is now the swing vote
The ethics fight was always about Trump's own crypto earnings — $635 million in meme coin royalties, another $515 million from World Liberty Financial token sales, all disclosed in his annual filing. Democrats want limits on that kind of presidential self-dealing before they supply the missing votes.
So the person being asked to accept those limits is the person those limits target.
That's not a normal negotiation. Whether Thursday's meeting was genuinely productive or just a pressure-release valve dressed up as progress, the fundamental awkwardness doesn't go away: you're asking Trump to constrain Trump.
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- Senator Lummis to introduce CLARITY Act, aims for XRP legal certainty before August · en.coin-turk.com · T2
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