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US Senate kills landmark crypto bill as Trump ethics divide fractures the vote

9/16/2026

The landmark US crypto bill in focus is now a legislative casualty.

The Senate failed to pass it after the chamber split over concerns tied to Trump ethics, a massive setback for an industry that had committed record sums to lobbying for a favorable market structure.

No revised path forward has been announced. That record investment had a single target: a Senate majority on market structure.

The Trump ethics concerns opened a fault line through the chamber that had nothing to do with the bill's regulatory content.

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