U.S. Congress Excludes Crypto Provisions in Final Defense Bill
U.S. Congress released the National Defense Authorization Act for 2024 this week, but failed to include crypto provisions in the critical piece of legislation.
The National Defense Authorization Act for the Fiscal Year of 2024, or FY24 NDAA, missed the boat in regards to allotting blockchain or crypto-related defense statutes for the upcoming.
“Disappointed but not surprised that McHenry & others were unable to add crypto provisions to the annual National Defense & Authorization Act,” stated crypto CLO, Katherine Kirkpatrick Bos. “Without the opp to add language to massive bills such as the NDAA, I am increasingly pessimistic about crypto legislation anytime soon.”
The new legislation excludes an amendment put forward last summer by Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Robert Marshall (R-KS), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) that would have required regulators “to set examination standards for financial institutions engaged in crypto asset activities” as well as requiring the Treasury Department to provide “recommendations to Congress regarding crypto asset mixers and anonymity-enhancing crypto assets.”
Cody Carbone, Vice President of Policy for the Chamber of Digital Commerce, posted to X that “the best opportunity to pass legislation is to add it to a ‘must-pass’ bill” while noting that “the NDAA has passed every year for 62 straight.”
With Congress scheduled to be released for their holiday break on December 15th, time is running out for whether or not additional pieces of crypto-based legislation can be passed before they reconvene in early 2024.
In addition to failing to add the aforementioned amendment, Congress also excluded a terror-financing bill put forward in April by Senators Tedd Budd (R-NC)
