Legislation reintroduced in the U.S. Senate seeks “to amend the Federal Reserve Act to limit the ability of Federal Reserve banks to issue central bank digital currency.”
S. 967 was introduced March 23 by Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah.
“The United States doesn’t need to create a Central Bank Digital Currency to know it is a bad idea,” Lee says. “We’ve seen this play out in China with the digital Yuan. In early trials, China canceled its citizens’ money after a set period, forcing Chinese citizens to spend their savings at the compulsion of the government.
“My bill protects Americans from a similar intrusion by prohibiting the Federal Reserve or any federal government agency from minting or issuing a CBDC, whether through a direct-to-consumer or intermediated model.”
Lee says the Federal Reserve has already begun to develop “a central bank digital currency (CBDC), a digital asset, minted, issued, and controlled by them, that would alter the ability of financial institutions to function as lenders, while giving the federal government knowledge of every…