Crypto Drama: Senators Race the Calendar, Trump Throws Shade, and Stablecoins Get Weird
The new target, fashionably late compared to the impatient flick of President Trump’s wrist, trailed behind the August deadline like an underachieving stablecoin. We might chuckle, because in Washington, schedules bend like birch trees under sudden storms—sometimes the wind is just hot air from the latest press release. Even Senator Cynthia Lummis, erstwhile prophetess of “end of year,” crumpled her calendar in the face of Scott’s chairmanship. “‘Yes, sir. You’re the chairman; we’ll do as you wish.’” Could compliance sound any more poetic, or is it just the echo of bureaucracy’s resigned sigh?