The member of the US Congress Tom Emmer recently reaffirmed his support for Stablecoins and his fierce opposition to Central Banque (CBDC), which he considers a threat to citizens' financial freedom. During a recent intervention on March 11, 2025, EMMER again presented its pro-stable bill aimed at promoting these digital assets while slowing the development of CBDC in the United States.
Aid support for stablecoins
Emmer, one of the most fervent defenders of cryptocurrencies at the American Congress, believes that stablecoins are a healthy and necessary alternative to traditional fiduciary currencies. Unlike CBDC, which could be controlled by the State, the Stablecoins offer a decentralized option allowing citizens to maintain their financial autonomy.
He claims that these assets, if they are well regulated, can stimulate innovation and strengthen the leadership of the United States in the cryptocurrency industry. In addition, it highlights the potential of stablecoins to improve cross -border payments and offer better stability to digital transactions. This could also attract institutional capital, as Hon Ng, Legal Director of Bitget thinks:
The parliamentary committee's decision to regulate stable currencies while rejecting the Central Bank's digital currency (CBDC) testifies to a strategic effort aimed at encouraging innovation in the private sector while imposing acceleration plans for the domination of the US dollar. Clear regulations and proportionate to risks, focused on transparency of issuers and compulsory reserves, could legitimize stable currencies, attract institutional capital and accelerate their adoption.
CBDC: A threat to financial freedom?
For Tom Emmer, CBDCs are “anti-American” insofar as they could allow the government to monitor and control the financial transactions of citizens. He fears That such a system gives the state an excessive power over personal finances, which goes against the principles of individual freedom and private life defended by the American Constitution.
His bill thus aims to prevent the federal reserve from developing a programmable CBDC which could be used to restrict or censor certain transactions. He considers that the American banking system, based on competition and innovation, should not be jeopardized by a centralized government controlled by the government.
This position in favor of Stablecoins is part of a broader debate on crypto regulations in the United States. While some legislators see in CBDC a means of modernizing the financial system, others, as to emmer, see it as a danger to individual sovereignty. What will be the reaction of the EU from which its CBDC (the digital euro) will be released soon? Will she once again keep a disturbing silence, as with the Bitcoin reserve decreed by Trump?
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