{"id":96672,"date":"2026-05-29T03:33:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=96672"},"modified":"2026-05-29T03:33:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:33:05","slug":"scott-bessent-wants-congress-to-pass-crypto-bill-says-trump-administration-has-taken-cbdc-idea-off-the-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=96672","title":{"rendered":"Scott Bessent Wants Congress To Pass Crypto Bill, Says Trump Administration Has Taken CBDC Idea &#8216;Off The Table&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Treasury Secretary\u00a0<strong>Scott Bessent<\/strong>\u00a0called on Congress on Thursday to pass the Clarity Act, emphasizing its importance for the future of digital assets in the U.S.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bill Has \u2018Bipartisan Support\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>During a White House briefing, Bessent stated that the key piece of cryptocurrency legislation has \u201cbipartisan support\u201d and encouraged the House and the Senate to move forward with its passage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you look at digital assets, all the nonsense that happens, all the things you read about, that\u2019s because it\u2019s the wild, wild west offshore. So we got to bring it on shore,\u201d Bessent said.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WhiteHouse\/status\/2060068091610952117\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"786\" height=\"722\" src=\"https:\/\/editorial-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/28221846\/image-754.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1482426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/editorial-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/28221846\/image-754.png 786w,https:\/\/editorial-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/28221846\/image-754-300x276.png 300w,https:\/\/editorial-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/28221846\/image-754-768x705.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 786px) 100vw, 786px\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bessent Says No To CBDC\u2019s<\/h2>\n<p>Bessent said that the Trump administration does not support a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/money\/what-is-a-central-bank-digital-currency-cbdc\">central bank digital currency<\/a>, and the idea has been taken \u201coff the table.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The remark came in response to a question about safeguarding \u201cprivacy\u201d and \u201cfreedom\u201d in the new digital payment framework.<\/p>\n<p>SEC Chair <strong>Paul Atkins<\/strong> also said the era &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/05\/52863201\/scott-bessent-congress-crypto-bill-cbdc-off-table?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Scott\" bessent wants congress to pass crypto bill says trump administration has taken cbdc idea the table>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Treasury Secretary\u00a0Scott Bessent\u00a0called on Congress on Thursday to pass the Clarity Act, emphasizing its importance for the future of digital assets in the U.S. Bill Has \u2018Bipartisan Support\u2019 During a White House briefing, Bessent stated that the key piece of cryptocurrency legislation has \u201cbipartisan support\u201d and encouraged the House and the Senate to move forward [&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-96672","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\/96672","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=96672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}