Mon Mar 13, 2023 – 3:11 pm EDTMon Mar 13, 2023 – 3:21 pm EDT
PIERRE, South Dakota (LifeSiteNews) — South Dakota governor Kristi Noem vetoed a bill Thursday that classifies a potential central bank digital currency (CBDC) as money, while excluding private cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.
Noem called the bill a “threat to our freedom” in an interview with Tucker Carlson on Friday, and warned that 20 other states have drawn up the same kind of legislation.
I VETOED a bill that changes the definition of money, and that opens the door for the federal government to adopt a Central Bank Digital Currency.
But more than 20 other states are facing the same legislation. Thank you @TuckerCarlson for helping us get the word out! pic.twitter.com/ggx47PiSAb
— Kristi Noem (@KristiNoem) March 11, 2023
“By defining ‘money’ in this proposed way, HB 1193 opens the door to the risk that the federal government could more easily adopt a CBDC which then may become the only viable digital currency,” Noem explained in her veto letter.
By giving the government control over currency, the bill would enable them to “control people,” she warned on Tucker Carlson Tonight.
“If the
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