{"id":624338,"date":"2026-07-04T20:30:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T20:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=828501"},"modified":"2026-07-04T20:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T20:30:31","slug":"us-senator-seeks-memecoin-ban-for-trump-and-elected-officials-after-636-million-disclosure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/04\/us-senator-seeks-memecoin-ban-for-trump-and-elected-officials-after-636-million-disclosure\/","title":{"rendered":"US Senator Seeks Memecoin Ban for Trump and Elected Officials After $636 Million Disclosure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/congress-senator-memecoin-ban-trump-elected-officials-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"US Senator Seeks Memecoin Ban for Trump and Elected Officials After $636 Million Disclosure\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>A renewed ethics fight over President Donald Trump\u2019s cryptocurrency earnings has sharpened as U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand pushes to ban elected officials from profiting from digital assets they create or promote while in office. Why Trump\u2019s Crypto Earnings Intensified the Ethics Debate U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) renewed her push on July 3, 2026, to [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A renewed ethics fight over President Donald Trump\u2019s cryptocurrency earnings has sharpened as U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand pushes to ban elected officials from profiting from digital assets they create or promote while in office. Why Trump\u2019s Crypto Earnings Intensified the Ethics Debate U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) renewed her push on July 3, 2026, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":624339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-624338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin","8":"category-featured"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}