Senate takes up crypto bill amid uncertainty
Nine pro-crypto Democrats released a statement Saturday saying that they would not support the crypto bill until Republicans agreed to make changes related to national security and consumer protections. Though their issues centered in large part on not being sufficiently consulted between the committee vote and the floor — one person described their pushback as “calling a foot fault” — their announcement came in the wake of a tense caucus meeting last week where senators discussed the Trump family’s crypto ventures.
Four of the lawmakers — Sens. Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware, Ruben Gallego of Arizona, Andy Kim of New Jersey and Mark Warner of Virginia — had already voted for the measure in committee. Gallego said on a…
