随着周五结束,美国住房负担能力法案将成为法律,同时一项不相关的条款将对美国央行数字货币实施四年禁令。 该限制将阻止美联储发行可以与私营部门稳定币竞争的数字美元,尽管美联储并未致力于实现这一目标。 加密行业长期以来对美国央行数字货币(CBDC)想法的敌意将因住房法案的禁令而得到回报,该法案将于周六第一时间通过成为法律。
四年来,美联储将不被允许发行自己的数字美元,共和党议员将其视为潜在的过度政府监控的威胁,尽管美国尚未认真努力建立数字美元。该限制是国会两党住房负担能力法案的一部分,唐纳德·特朗普总统拒绝签署该法案。 “我不会签署已获得国会完全批准并送交白宫的住房法案,以抗议美国参议院没有能力通过《拯救美国法案》,”总统周五在其“真相社会”网站上发帖写道。 然而,美国宪法规定,一旦总统获得国会批准的法案,无论他是否签署,该法案都会在 10 天的窗口期后成为法律。特朗普尚未选择正式否决该法案,因此该法案现在准备在午夜通过。
CBDC 限制将于 2030 年底到期,尽管届时美联储数字货币被执行的可能性很小。美联储的兴趣有限,其前任领导层——甚至在特朗普新任美联储主席凯文·沃什(Kevin Warsh)上任之前——早就表示,这样的努力需要得到白宫的支持和国会的授权。国会从未对 CBDC 给予广泛支持。 但这一想法因其与私人发行的稳定币竞争的潜力而受到加密行业的强烈反对,但这一想法已在欧洲和中国等其他司法管辖区得到推行,并成为美国政界人士的热门政治目标。因此,共和党人在此前试图将其纳入包括《外国情报监视法》在内的一系列法案之后,设法将其纳入不相关的住房立法。
尽管整体住房法案很受欢迎,但特朗普在最后一刻出人意料地反对签署该法案,他此前已为此安排了一场仪式并搭建了舞台。他宣称,在立法者批准一项对选民实施新的公民身份证明和身份检查的法案之前,他不会签署任何协议——这项举措目前没有足够的支持,无法在国会获得通过。 总统辩称,缺乏这样的法律将使共和党在国会中期选举中付出代价,而民主党目前在中期选举中有望重新获得众议院多数席位。 特朗普对任何偏离他所青睐的努力的国会活动提出抗议,这引发了人们的疑问:如果国会成功在今年夏天通过一项完整的《数字资产市场清晰度法案》,该法案是否可能面临类似的情况。 唐纳德·特朗普CBDC
As Friday winds to a close, the U.S. housing-affordability bill will become law, along with an unrelated provision that imposes a four-year ban on a U.S. central bank digital currency.
The restriction will block the Federal Reserve from issuing a digital dollar that could compete with private-sector stablecoins, though the central bank was not working toward that goal.
The crypto industry's long animosity toward the idea of a U.S. central bank digital currency (CBDC) will be rewarded with a ban under the housing bill set to pass into law in the first moment of Saturday.
For four years, the Federal Reserve won't be permitted to issue its own digital dollar, which Republican lawmakers have held up as a threat of potential overreaching government surveillance, though there hasn't yet been a serious effort in the U.S. to institute one. The restriction was part of Congress' bipartisan housing-affordability bill that President Donald Trump refused to sign into law.
"I will not sign the Housing Bill, which has been fully approved by Congress and sent to the White House, in PROTEST over the fact that the United States Senate is not capable of passing THE SAVE AMERICA ACT," the president wrote in a Friday post on his Truth Social website.
The U.S. Constitution, however, says that once the president is given a congressionally approved bill, it becomes law after a 10-day window whether he signs it or not. Trump hasn't chosen to formally veto the bill, so it's now set up for a midnight passage.
The CBDC limit expires at the end of 2030, though there was little chance that a Fed digital currency would have been executed by then. There's been limited appetite at the central bank, where its previous leadership — even before the arrival of Trump's newest Fed chair, Kevin Warsh — had long said that such an effort would require backing from the White House and congressional authorization. There's never been wide support for a CBDC in Congress.
But the idea — strongly opposed by the crypto industry for its potential to compete with privately issued stablecoins — has been pursued in other jurisdictions, such as Europe and China, and it became a popular political target for U.S. politicians. So Republicans managed to slip it into the unrelated housing legislation, after previously trying to include it in a range of bills including the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Despite the overall housing bill's popularity, Trump took an unexpected, last-minute stand against signing it, for which he'd previously scheduled a ceremony and had a stage erected. He declared that he wouldn't sign anything until lawmakers approved a bill that would impose new proof-of-citizenship and identity checks on voters — an effort without sufficient current support to pass in Congress.
The president has argued that the absence of such a law will cost Republicans the midterm congressional elections, in which Democrats are currently favored to retake the majority in the House of Representatives.
Trump's protest against any congressional activity that strays from his favored effort has raised questions about whether a completed Digital Asset Market Clarity Act could face a similar situation, if Congress manages to pass it this summer.
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