Market news: US President Trump will sign an executive order at 3:00 pm local time on Friday (4:00 am Beijing time the next day). (Jin Ten)
The White House: US President Donald Trump will sign the bill at 5 pm on Friday (5 am Beijing time the next day).
President Trump will sign the executive order at 3:30 p.m. Eastern time on Friday.
On Friday afternoon local time, Trump-backed Republican Representative Mike Johnson received enough votes to be re-elected as House Speaker. Johnson is considered a crypto-friendly figure, having previously voted in favor of the 21st Century Financial Innovation and Technology Act (commonly known as FIT21) and the Anti-Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Act. Johnson's re-election and Emmer's continued tenure as the majority whip mean that crypto-friendly members of Congress are likely to push ...