{"id":42302,"date":"2025-08-15T04:01:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T04:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=42302"},"modified":"2025-08-15T04:01:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T04:01:50","slug":"cynthia-lummis-backs-scott-bessents-commitment-to-build-bitcoin-reserve-without-burdening-us-taxpayers-i-have-a-bill-for-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=42302","title":{"rendered":"Cynthia Lummis Backs Scott Bessent&#8217;s &#8216;Commitment&#8217; To Build Bitcoin Reserve Without Burdening US Taxpayers \u2014 &#8216;I Have A Bill For That&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Sen.\u00a0<strong>Cynthia Lummis<\/strong>\u00a0(R-Wyo.) on Thursday backed a \u201cbudget-neutral approach\u201d to building a Strategic <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) Reserve, opposing the idea of purchasing additional BTC to address the mounting national debt.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lummis Pushes For BITCOIN Act, Schiff Disagrees<\/h2>\n<p>In an X post, Lummis agreed with Treasury Secretary\u00a0<strong>Scott Bessent<\/strong>, who said that the Treasury Department is \u201ccommitted\u201d to exploring budget-neutral pathways for expanding the stockpile.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecScottBessent?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SecScottBessent<\/a> is right: a budget-neutral path to building SBR is the way. We cannot save our country from $37T debt by purchasing more bitcoin, but we can revalue gold reserves to today&#8217;s prices &amp; transfer the increase in value to build SBR. <\/p>\n<p>America needs the BITCOIN Act.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Senator Cynthia Lummis (@SenLummis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenLummis\/status\/1956095326210941204?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 14, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot save our country from $37 trillion debt by purchasing more bitcoin, but we can revalue gold reserves to today&#8217;s prices &amp; transfer the increase in value to build SBR,\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/08\/47146275\/cynthia-lummis-backs-scott-bessents-commitment-to-build-bitcoin-reserve-without-burdening-u\" alt=\"Cynthia\" lummis backs scott bessent to build bitcoin reserve without burdening us taxpayers have a bill for that>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen.\u00a0Cynthia Lummis\u00a0(R-Wyo.) on Thursday backed a \u201cbudget-neutral approach\u201d to building a Strategic Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) Reserve, opposing the idea of purchasing additional BTC to address the mounting national debt. Lummis Pushes For BITCOIN Act, Schiff Disagrees In an X post, Lummis agreed with Treasury Secretary\u00a0Scott Bessent, who said that the Treasury Department is \u201ccommitted\u201d to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-42302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}