House Bill orders 90-day plan for a strategic Bitcoin reserve

The House of Representatives has advanced a spending bill that bankrolls the Treasury Department’s push into digital assets, explicitly including work on a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile.

On Sept. 5, the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Bill (H.R. 5166) was reported out, setting $239,424,000 for Treasury Departmental Offices through Sept. 30, 2026.

Within that total, lawmakers wrote that “not less than $9,000,000 shall be available for the administration of financial assistance” and that “not to exceed $34,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 2027” for the Treasury-wide Financial Statement Audit and Internal Control Program, “information technology modernization requirements,” and programs within the Office of Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection.

The Bitcoin-specific mandates are new and direct. Section 137 orders Treasury to deliver, within 90 days of enactment, a report “on the practicability of establishing a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile,” including “how Bitcoin and digital assets would appear on the federal government’s balance sheet,” the impact on the Treasury Forfeiture Fund, and “all third party contractors responsible for the custody of the assets.”

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The bill also draws a bright line around a U.S. CBDC. Section 130 states: “None of the funds made available by this Act may be used by the Department of the Treasury to advise or participate in the design, build, or development of a United States Central Bank Digital Currency or participate in any decision to discontinue circulation or use of paper currency as legal tender in the United States.”

The filing does not itself authorize Bitcoin purchases. Instead, it compels Treasury to map how a national Bitcoin reserve and broader digital-asset stockpile would be structured, custodied and secured, laying groundwork for a modern, security-first framework for government-held crypto.

At the time of writing, Bitcoin is trading around $112,375, up about 1.0% over the past 24 hours.

This story was originally reported by TheStreet on Sep 8, 2025, where it first appeared in the Policy section. Add TheStreet as a Preferred Source by clicking here.

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