Which means there is precious little time for anything else to get done , such as the crypto bill, as our Claire Williams explained. It's not impossible that the bill could be voted on and passed in the fall, but the midterms are going to be blocking out the sun on anything not election-related. And for the banking industry, it still isn't clear that the provisions bankers want — mainly blocking crypto firms from offering interest on deposits — will be included in the final bill. Like I have said before, the crypto industry needs this bill a lot more than the banking industry does, and I imagine there's more than one banker out there who'd be happy to see the whole thing disappear into the Washington sausage maker. The revenue needed from AI is just as astounding as the trillions poured into building out the data centers.