Warren Blocks Federal Digital Money: Legislative pivot creates a structural void for private assets.
Bureaucratic Reversal: The Anatomy of Legislative Inconsistency. The Sovereign Surrender: How Washington Codified the Private Stablecoin Monopoly Washington’s progressive champion just signed the death warrant for public digital money. Statutory Stasis: The High Cost of Frozen Policy. In a striking bipartisan maneuver, the US Senate passed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act today by a sweeping 85-5 margin. While framed as a real estate package, it contains a hard statutory prohibition locking the Federal Reserve out of issuing a retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) through 2030 . Senator Elizabeth Warren, historically the loudest advocate for "public digital money" to drive out private alternatives, co-authored and backed this very restriction. This legislative compromise places the United S...