White House Adviser Says Focus Shifts to Federal Regulators After Clarity Act Setback

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【White House Crypto Adviser Denies Trump’s Crypto Interests Blocked the Clarity Act】

Patrick Witt, Executive Director of the White House Digital Asset Advisory Council, defended President Trump’s crypto ties on Wednesday at the Financial Markets Quality conference held at Georgetown University, denying that his personal crypto interests caused the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (Clarity Act) to fail to advance in the Senate last week. He said Democrats had politicized the issue and questioned why a recently passed housing bill did not require stringent government ethics-review provisions. Clarity Act negotiations have consistently failed to move beyond an ethics dispute concerning crypto conflicts of interest among senior government officials, with Trump as the principal target. Witt said Trump agreed to unprecedented ethics provisions: in addition to ultimately being willing to accept rules requiring him to divest his crypto assets or place them in a blind trust, the White House was prepared to concede by allowing state attorneys general to sue him if the federal government failed to prosecute ethics violations. He also said it was “rather ironic” to allege that Trump has a conflict of interest by directing digital-asset policy while controlling crypto assets, because multiple senators on the Banking Committee participating in the deliberations hold and actively trade shares of the financial-services companies they regulate. Witt’s primary responsibility is to advance the Clarity Act into law, and the bill encountered setbacks in the Senate last week. At a CoinDesk policy and regulation event on Tuesday, he said the year-end lame-duck session was not the priority, with the current core work shifting to federal regulators such as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He also accused banking-industry lobbyists of pushing to shelve the bill over concerns that stablecoin rewards could compete with interest-bearing bank deposits, saying the opposition began with large banks and spread to community banks.

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Key points

Patrick Witt denied at the Financial Markets Quality conference held at Georgetown University that Trump’s personal crypto interests caused the Clarity Act to fail to advance in the Senate last week.
Witt said Democrats had politicized the issue.
Witt said Trump agreed to ethics provisions, including ultimately being willing to accept rules requiring the divestment of crypto assets or their placement in a blind trust.
Witt said the White House was prepared to allow state attorneys general to bring lawsuits if the federal government failed to prosecute ethics violations.
Witt said the current core work is shifting to federal regulators such as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Witt accused banking-industry lobbyists of pushing to shelve the bill over concerns that stablecoin rewards would compete with interest-bearing bank deposits.

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The following is analysis, separate from reported facts. Verify important claims independently.

This report concerns why a digital-asset market bill did not continue advancing. White House adviser Patrick Witt denied that the issue stemmed from Trump’s crypto interests and said the White House was willing to make concessions on ethics rules; these points are primarily Witt’s statements.

Why it matters to readers

Whether the Clarity Act can advance, and how the related ethics provisions are drafted, will affect subsequent discussions of digital-asset policy and the direction of regulatory work.

Beginners should distinguish between the reported procedural outcome and the parties’ explanations: the bill’s Senate setback is part of the report, while the roles of Democrats, the banking industry, and conflicts of interest are Witt’s attributions or assessments.

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The original text provides no response from Democrats, the banking industry, or other relevant parties.
The original text alone cannot independently confirm whether the ethics provisions Trump agreed to and the White House concession proposal have been formalized in an official text.
The original text alone cannot confirm whether banking-industry lobbying caused the bill to be shelved.
The original text does not specify the timing or process for the Clarity Act’s subsequent advancement.

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