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Elizabeth Warren Urges Donald Trump To Disclose 2026 Crypto Earnings Ahead Of CLARITY Act
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Warren urges Trump to disclose 2026 crypto earnings in voluntary disclosure. Trump's 2025 crypto income totaling about $1.4 billion.
Warren presses Trump on crypto
Senator Elizabeth Warren urged President Donald Trump to provide updated financial disclosures covering his cryptocurrency earnings for the first half of 2026, arguing the information is important as the US Senate weighs legislation that could reshape the crypto market.
In a letter sent on Thursday, Warren requested that Trump voluntarily release a report detailing crypto-related income between Jan. 1 and July 15, ahead of the Senate’s consideration of the Digital Asset Market Clarity (CLARITY) Act.
Warren’s request is framed against Trump’s 2025 disclosures, which reportedly showed $1.4 billion in crypto-related earnings, including through his memecoin, Official Trump (TRUMP), and through World Liberty Financial.
Warren also pointed to the timing of disclosure requirements, saying Trump is not expected to file his full 2026 annual report until May 2027, but she asked for voluntary publication by July 23 to align with the Senate’s consideration of the CLARITY bill.
Trump denies wrongdoing
Warren said her concern centers on whether presidents, senior administration officials, members of Congress, and their families should profit from the crypto industry while the federal government debates rules that could influence market outcomes. In the same dispute, Warren warned that “[w]ithout adequate guardrails, [CLARITY] would turbocharge the President’s significant conflicts of interest and almost certainly boost the value of his and his family’s crypto holdings.”
Trump rejected the criticism in a July 2 interview, saying there was “nothing illegal” and “nothing wrong” with profiting from his crypto investments as president. The political timetable for the bill is tied to ethics conditions, with Senate Majority Leader John Thune indicating the chamber intends to hold a vote on the crypto bill before the Senate breaks for August states work periods.
House hearing and Senate vote
While the Senate debate focuses on timing and ethics guardrails, the House side has moved in parallel, with a field hearing held in New York City on the CLARITY Act by the House Financial Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence. Representative French Hill, who chairs the full committee and attended the hearing, described CLARITY as a “bipartisan priority” for Congress, but the hearing reportedly did not include Democratic representatives from the committee.
On the Senate path, the bill’s return to the chamber is contingent on a vote threshold, with the reporting stating it will return to the chamber if approved with 60 votes in the Senate after already passing the House in July 2025. The immediate stakes in the sources are whether ethics provisions—especially disclosures and guardrails—will be strengthened enough to address concerns raised by Warren and other Democrats as the July 23 disclosure deadline approaches.