PoliticsWhy Trump backed a crypto ethics rule that stopped at the family business

The Senate’s final CLARITY Act draft would have required senior federal officials and their spouses to sell or place in a blind trust qualifying digital-asset business equity worth at least $15,000, while exempting adult children. The bill failed to advance on Sept. 15. The proposal’s family-business boundary is illustrated by Trump’s crypto ventures and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s ties to Cantor Fitzgerald and Tether.

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