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Ted Cruz: “I have not been able to nail Jay Powell down on whether the…”

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Senator Ted Cruz Discusses Crypto Legislation and Policy Challenges

Published | Video Starts at 13:09

He sounds like a great free market guy and I'm very confident when he sits in Elizabeth Warren's office, he sounds like Comrade Marx. And the Fed. I have not been able to nail Jay Powell down on whether the Fed has authority to create a cbdc. I think the answer is clearly no. But I want to pass legislation to make unequivocally clear that we will not see a CBDC from the Fed. (13:09–13:15)

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Asserts uncertainty about the Federal Reserve's authority to create a CBDC.

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