Ethics will be front and center Thursday afternoon at a meeting with President Donald Trump, a small group of lawmakers and White House staff as lawmakers seek to resolve one of the biggest obstacles to passing landmark cryptocurrency legislation.
That meeting will be held at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday with Republican Sens. Bernie Moreno and Cynthia Lummis, along with top White House crypto adviser Patrick Witt and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, said Solana Policy Institute President Kristin Smith. This comes as lawmakers have been negotiating ethics language to address lawmakers' concerns about Trump and his family's crypto ventures.
"The purpose is to pitch him some ideas on the ethics issue and hopefully get his sign-off on those," Smith said in an interview with The Block. "So I think that's hugely positive."
Smith called the meeting "critical" to getting the bill, called the Clarity Act, passed. The focus is to get Trump's sign-off on ethics, she added.
CoinDesk first reported news of the meeting. Lummis, Moreno, and the White House did not respond to a request for comments on details about the meeting.
