.US Govt is skeptical about legalizing cryptos.
Considering that they're already legal, that might be quite a difficult task for them.
This could potentially be part of a broader movement in the US to tax BTC earnings and regulate exchanges properly.
Since they're the US though, they'll inevitably do this over several years in a variety of sinister but not quite outright malicious moves that makes everyone hate them while also achieving nothing meaningful.
We're lucky they aren't running the world.