Marjorie Taylor Greene Rages Against Trump-Backed Crypto Bill: ‘Would End Freedom Altogether’

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) joined Steve Bannon’s War Room program on Thursday and raged against the Trump-backed Genius Act, the GOP’s landmark crypto regulation bill. Greene warned that the bill “would end freedom altogether” by giving the government “control” of your money.

“Let’s talk. Let’s start with the Genius Act. I’m very confused about the Genius Act. I thought there was a deal made by the president to make sure that included was going to be the central bank digital currency. There’d be no possibility of a, uh, of a back door to get that. So where are we?” Bannon asked Greene about the bill, which had previously been stalled by right-wing holdouts.

“Steve, let me explain something. In 1971, we went off of the gold standard. The Federal Reserve did that, and we went to cash, a cash society, and the value of the dollar has drastically gone down. The buying power is less than 10 cents now from where it was in the 1950s before we went off the Gold Reserve. That’s happening today on July 17th in 2025, when no one is paying attention—no one’s talking about it,” Greene replied, adding:

Everyone is in blind rage about the Epstein files, and I don’t blame them.

However, right now what is being voted on today in Congress is the entire setup, groundwork, and entire infrastructure being laid to move from cash to digital currency. And the number one thing that is not happening today is a ban on a central bank digital currency.

This means the ability for the government to take control of your digital bank account, where all your money is, and turn it off. And this is why I’m so upset, and it’s not being talked about.

Steve, I was the only no vote on the rule last night, and Congress set a record last night, and no one’s talking about that either. This was the longest vote held open for a rule in history—in history. And it finally shut down sometime around midnight because there was a deal made, and the deal will not be honored. It was a deal that Speaker Johnson made, and he said that he would put a ban on central bank digital currency in the NDAA.

But let me tell you something: that’s going to get stripped out in the Senate because what they told us all week long is the Senate does not have the votes to pass a ban on a central bank digital currency. So I want to lay this out straight for you all.

You never thought in your lifetime that the government would shut you down, would close your churches, would close your schools, would close your business. And that happened only a few years ago. But what is happening today is the groundwork is being laid, and it’s all in the name of cryptocurrency and stablecoin, but it is the entire regulatory process to switch us from cash to a cashless society to digital currency that can be controlled by the government. And there will be no ban on a central bank digital currency.

There will be no way to protect your ability to fully control your digital currency in the future. And I’m voting no to this today. I don’t know if there will be any other no votes on the Republican side, but I’m voting no to this because I’m a Christian and I’ve read the Bible, and I believe what Revelation 13:16 through 17 says. And I just cannot vote for a future system that will do that.

Greene also raged against the bill, which Trump has said he wants on his desk immediately, in a series of posts on X.

“I am NOT voting for the mark of the beast system. Totally happy and content being 1000% NO,” she wrote on Wednesday. She also shared her Bannon interview and wrote, “CONGRESS PUSHING CASHLESS SOCIETY & END OF FINANCIAL FREEDOM. In 1971, we left the gold standard. Today, the groundwork is being laid for a cashless society controlled by digital currency. You won’t control your money. The government will. This would end freedom altogether.”

Watch the clip above via War Room.