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Warren Davidson: “The point of Congress is to pass a law that provides these…”

Featuring: Warren Davidson, Republican | U.S. House Ohio, 8th Congressional District

CLARITY Act Under Threat From Banks!🚨Rep. Warren Davidson INTERVIEW

Published January 7, 2026 | Video Starts at 16:30

… Elizabeth Warren's anti crypto army and Gary Gensler and others to kind of wage war on the sector. So while we're safe under President Trump's executive branch, the reality is The point of Congress is to pass a law that provides these protections. So I hope they nail all of it and really codify the fact that speech and code aren't money service businesses any more than building a hard drive or writing software is some sort of security. (16:30–16:35)

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“The Biden administration's war on crypto essentially killed several banks because of this and drove banks out of the sector broadly.”
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“The founders of [Tornado Cash and Samurai Wallet] were prosecuted for operating a legal money service business.”
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“Federal Reserve job boards, they're literally hiring people to write code to develop a central bank digital currency.”
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“The average person conflate[s] everything in the digital asset space with central bank digital currency.”
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“We should have been leading with a ban on central bank digital currency.”
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“We at least got a stablecoin bill across the finish line this year.”
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“They promised to move this bill through Senate banking in September. Last year, they didn't.”
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“They promised to do it in December, they didn't.”
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“Now they're promising to vote on it in committee next week.”
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“No one's come out and said we've got the votes to pass it even out of committee.”
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“If you don't get it done by June, it doesn't look good.”
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“Banks can pay interest, but fintech companies, other stablecoin issuers who don't have a bank charter can't pay interest.”
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“Banks are essentially building momentum to even [ban rewards].”
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“All the legislation that has passed the House so far passed without self custody.”
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“The government is trying to limit your ability to have self custody both in the United States, all over the European Union, the European…”
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“Previous administrations, including really Steve Mnuchin when he was Secretary of the treasury for President Trump's first Term have tried…”
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“Congress hasn't taken action and that ill-defined nature has left the executive branch the ability to go with Elizabeth Warren's anti-crypto…”
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“Self custody, for example, is one of the main reasons that I was concerned about House legislation here.”
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“The Senate seems to have gotten that message and they're working hard to provide some level of protection for self custody.”
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“The Genius act had a provision about central bank digital currency that closed off, offering a retail CBDC like the Federal Reserve…”
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“What they've been building, the Death Star they've been building is called a wholesale cbdc.”
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“Because Genius didn't ban central bank digital currency, we had a separate bill, Tom Emmer's bill, to ban central bank digital currency like…”
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“The government could do [something dangerous] if you look at a central bank digital currency coupled with a digital id.”
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“They're not accidentally investing all this money to do it. They're doing it because they plan to launch it.”
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“I've encouraged them to actually argue over, is the Federal Reserve subject to executive orders?”
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“I've also asked the inspector general for the Federal Reserve to look into that.”
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“Bitcoin isn't in the financial services space, because it's not a security.”
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“I've personally chosen not to buy any [bitcoin] since I've been in office.”
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“When President Trump came in and does not like an investment in bitcoin.”
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“I think you should be free to [buy meme coins].”
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“Hopefully all of my colleagues are better informed and more supportive and they'll just do the right thing, get this across the finish line.”
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