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

https://mins.news/en/item/65791

- CryptoSlate, 2026-09-19 21:02 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://cryptoslate.com/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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