Turns out President Donald Trump didn’t have the magic touch House Republicans were expecting. Another day of crypto drama has now put the House in a severe time crunch, setting members up for a mammoth day of voting Thursday.
To recap: Speaker Mike Johnson headed into Wednesday confident that Trump had struck a deal with conservative holdouts to move a trio of cryptocurrency bills. But that quickly evaporated after committee chairs pushed back at hard-liners’ demands to attach a central bank digital currency ban to another bipartisan crypto bill.
The impasse kept the House rule vote open for nine hours until GOP leaders finally cut a…
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