Three pieces of cryptocurrency legislation and the fiscal 2026 Defense appropriations bill appeared ready for House floor action on Wednesday after stalling out for much of the day on Tuesday.
After a group of conservative Republican lawmakers sank the rule for floor debate over objections to how the crypto bills were being sent to the floor, GOP leaders initially were forced to pull the rule and scrap votes for the rest of the day. But most of the dozen defectors on the vote apparently had changes of heart after personal intervention from President Donald Trump in the Oval Office late Tuesday.
In a statement posted Tuesday night on his social platform Truth Social, Trump said he was meeting with 11 of the 12 rule opponents from earlier in the day — the 13th, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., voted “no” as a procedural mechanism so he could call the rule back up later.
