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We are watching a global push to marry a digital identity to a digital currency, and make no mistake: that pairing is about power, not convenience. What looks like a helpful app on your phone becomes the gateway for bureaucrats and banks to decide who participates in the economy. Americans who cherish liberty should be alarmed and ready to fight before convenience becomes coercion.
Brussels has already moved fast — the European Union’s Digital Identity framework entered into force and now requires member states to offer a digital ID wallet to citizens, with broad functionality and cross-border recognition slated for rollout by 2026. This isn’t a hypothetical plan; it’s law and a clear model for how governments can centralize identity and transactions into one controllable system.
Meanwhile, Beijing has been quietly perfecting practical tools of control: China’s digital yuan programs have expanded for years and Hong Kong now allows the e-CNY to be used in local shops, demonstrating how a state-run digital payment system can be rolled into everyday life. Beijing’s financial experiments aren’t just domestic — new yuan-linked stablecoins and blockchain projects show China is aggressively internationalizing digital currency to gain leverage over global trade and finance.
The American picture is messy but urgent. Federal Reserve officials have publicly said the Fed isn’t “remotely close” to launching a U.S. CBDC, and the Fed’s own materials note no decision has been made and that any issuance would require congressional authorization. Yet the debate has been raging in bureaucratic circles, and policy shifts at the White House level can change the landscape overnight.
On that point, the politics did shift: in January 2025 the White House issued an executive order that explicitly prohibits federal agencies from undertaking actions to establish or promote CBDCs and revoked prior frameworks that pushed international engagement on digital assets. That move shows two things: the risks were finally acknowledged at the highest levels, and policy can still protect American economic liberty if leaders have the courage to act.
Anyone paying attention knows the danger: when your digital identity and money live in the same system, the state or a centralized authority can program allowances, restrict travel, or cut off access to services for political or social reasons. Europe’s new digital wallet and China’s e-CNY are textbook examples of infrastructure that can be repurposed for surveillance or social control if left unchecked. We should treat those international examples as warnings, not templates to import.
The conservative answer is simple and unapologetic: defend cash, demand clear laws from Congress, and insist on strict prohibitions — not regulatory experiments — that prevent any federal CBDC or a mandatory digital ID tied to a payment system. This is not technophobia; it is a defense of constitutional liberty against centralized power. If we cede control of money or identity to technocrats, we forfeit the basic ability to refuse a state’s coercion.
Patriots should be loud, organized, and relentless. Call your representatives, support candidates who will enshrine protections for cash and privacy, and reject any policy that hands the keys of day-to-day life to an app or a central bank. Our freedom doesn’t come from convenience; it comes from vigilance, courage, and the refusal to be quietly numbered and controlled.
