Elizabeth Warren once said CBDCs have a “great pro
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Elizabeth Warren has spent much of the past decade warning Americans about the risks posed by privately issued and decentralized digital assets.
Over the years, the Massachusetts Democrat has built a reputation as one of crypto industry’s most recognizable critics by persistently linking the emerging industry to money laundering, speculative excess, consumer losses, and sanctions evasion.
Throughout her crusade against Bitcoin, she frequently offered a distinct alternative in a central bank digital currency, or CBDC.
In a 2021 Senate appearance, she stated:
Digital currency from central banks has great promise. Legitimate digital public money could help drive out bogus digital private money. It could help improve financial inclusion, efficiency, and the safety of our financial system – if that digital public money is well-designed and efficiently executed.
However, in a striking legislative twist, Warren has now co-authored and advanced a sweeping bipartisan package that explicitly prohibits the Federal Reserve from issuing that very digital alternative.
Late Monday, the US Senate passed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act in an overwhelming 85-5 vote. The legislation is primarily designed to alleviate the nationwide housing crisis by boosting construction, streamlining permitting, and barring large private equity firms from buying up single-family homes.
Yet, buried within the hundreds of pages of real estate and zoning reforms is a provision that legally blocks the US central bank from launching a retail digital dollar through at least the end of 2030.
Even after that temporary freeze expires, the Federal Reserve would be barred from moving forward with any substantially similar digital asset without receiving explicit, affirmative authorization from Congress.
Warren’s support for the housing bill does not establish th
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