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Senate Republicans privately bracing for another humiliating defeat

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Senate Republicans are privately warning that the chamber's bipartisan cryptocurrency measure, the CLARITY Act, is likely to fail when lawmakers return next week, Semafor reported Tuesday. It would be only the latest embarrassment for a party that controls Washington yet keeps tripping over its own majority. Just last week, House Republican leaders nearly lost a routine floor vote when five conservatives revolted over a stopgap spending deal, and the rule survived 210-208 only because two Democrats, Jared Golden of Maine and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington, crossed the aisle to rescue Speaker Mike Johnson from a floor collapse. Leaders have since scrapped two of September's planned voting weeks, sending members home until after the midterms . The crypto bill itself needs 60 votes to clear a filibuster, and there has been almost no movement on Democrats' central demand for ethics language governing how the president and his family cash in on crypto. "If there's no interest in the

First report: Senate Republicans say crypto bill likely to fail — semafor.com, 7d