Presidential hopefuls Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Ron DeSantis are railing against the Federal Reserve’s FedNow payments system, claiming it would pave the way for a central bank digital currency.
In an April 11 Twitter thread, Democrat RFK Jr. — the nephew of former president John F. Kennedy Jr. — once again sounded the alarm bells over CBDCs, describing them as the “ultimate mechanisms for social surveillance and control” as he questioned the Fed’s claims that FedNow wouldn’t be used to facilitate a CBDC: