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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent publicly attacked<\/a> Senate Democrats on July 30 for blocking a floor vote on the CLARITY Act, the House-passed digital asset market-structure bill that has spent more than a year awaiting Senate action, accusing them of political cowardice in the face of pressure from Senator Elizabeth Warren and what Bessent described as her self-described \u201canti-crypto army,\u201d and closing his argument by invoking Satoshi Nakamoto\u2019s most-quoted dismissal from early Bitcoin forum history.<\/p>\n More than a year ago, the House passed the Clarity Act. There\u2019s been progress since \u2014 thousands of hours of bipartisan negotiations took place at the staff and Member levels. The Senate Committees on Banking and Agriculture advanced their respective titles. And Senate\u2026<\/p>\n \u2014 Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (@SecScottBessent) July 30, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n This is not simply an administration lobbying push ahead of the August recess. It is a coordinated executive-branch escalation, Treasury and the SEC moving in parallel \u2013 designed to force a binary public choice on Democratic senators before the calendar closes the window entirely.<\/p>\n EXPLORE:\u00a0Best Meme Coins to Buy for August<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The CLARITY Act passed the House in 2025 with a 294\u2013134 vote and has since accumulated Calendar No. 423 status in the Senate, where the Banking Committee cleared a revised version in May 2026, and a merged draft incorporating Agriculture Committee revisions landed around July 13.<\/p>\n Despite thousands of staff hours on bipartisan negotiation, Bessent\u2019s characterization, via his July 30 post on X \u2013 Senate Majority Leader John Thune has said he does not expect the bill to clear the chamber before the August recess, citing unresolved ethics provisions that would restrict senior federal officials from engaging in personal crypto business activity while in office.<\/p>\n JUST IN: \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 JPMorgan says failure to pass the Clarity Act will hurt crypto markets.<\/p>\n “The longer the approval of the Clarity Act is postponed, the greater the threat to crypto markets.”<\/p>\n \u2014 Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) July 30, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Republicans hold 52\u201353 seats but need 60 votes to clear the filibuster threshold, making 7\u20138 Democratic crossover votes essential. Two Banking Committee Democrats backed the bill in May but have conditioned final floor votes on stronger ethics enforcement language, specifically, the scope of who can bring enforcement actions and whether restrictions extend to officials\u2019 children.<\/p>\n As of July 31, prediction markets tracked by CoinMarketCap placed the probability of Senate passage before the August recess at roughly 26.5%.<\/p>\n Bessent\u2019s X post framed the Democratic holdout as a structural failure of political will rather than a substantive legislative dispute. He stated that Senate Democrats are afraid to advance the bill because they fear Warren and the \u201canti-crypto army\u201d she once promised to build.<\/p>\n He also challenged Majority Leader Thune directly, questioning whether lawmakers would support American innovation or allow other nations to capture digital asset market leadership by default.<\/p>\n On the bill\u2019s substance, Bessent pushed back on Democratic claims that the CLARITY Act lacks consumer protections, arguing that Titles II and III would significantly expand compliance requirements for digital asset intermediaries and bring them closer to the standards applied to traditional financial institutions. He also defended the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act provision \u2013 embedded within CLARITY \u2013 which protects decentralized software developers from Bank Secrecy Act registration requirements, characterizing it as a codification of longstanding Treasury policy rather than a new carve-out. He noted that the Fraternal Order of Police, which previously opposed the measure, now supports it.<\/p>\n Bessent closed the post by paraphrasing Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto\u2019s line from early forum exchanges: that if someone does not believe or does not understand, there is simply no time left to try to convince them. The invocation \u2013 a sitting Treasury Secretary deploying crypto\u2019s founding mythology as a rhetorical close \u2013 drew immediate attention across market and policy circles as a deliberate cultural signal rather than an accidental one.<\/p>\n DISCOVER:\u00a0Best Meme Coins to Buy in 2026<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n
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