It advanced out of the Senate Banking Committee in March with bipartisan backing, but bled Democratic support weeks later when it was revealed that an Abu Dhabi-backed firm would use $2 billion in stablecoin purchased from Trump family-linked crypto firm, World Liberty Financial, to invest in Binance.

Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Arizona, was in South Carolina for a town hall advocating gun safety measures on the 10th anniversary of a massacre at a predominantly Black church, and did not vote on the crypto bill. In a statement, he said he supported its passage.