Clarity’s progress may hinge on what the president is willing to accept on the ethics section and whether he’ll support a bill that directly restricts his businesses. He’s urged Congress toward a Clarity Act passage, but he’s never explicitly addressed what he’s willing to sign into law when the restrictions are outlined for government officials.
White House spokespeople didn’t immediately comment on the meeting plans.
Recently, negotiations among senators from both parties were said to hit a wall over the conflict-of-interests provision, in which Democrats have demanded the president, vice president and members of Congress be restricted in their personal crypto ties. The disclosure from Trump that he’d made more than $1 billion from his industry involvement in 2025 added fuel for the critics.
On Tuesday, a few Democratic senators held a press conference to call for Clarity Act opposition if it doesn’t sever Trump’s “corrupt” ties to the sector. But that vocal group didn’t include Senator Ruben Gallego, a Democrat who has been at the front of the Clarity Act ethics negotiation for months. Gallego, alongside fellow Democratic Senator Angela Alsobrooks, who both voted for the bill in committee, said in May that they would not support the bill’s final passage without an ethics provision.
