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Tariff Surplus Should be Funneled into Bitcoin Strategic Reserve — Adam Livingston

The United States government can buy more Bitcoin (BTC) for the American Strategic Reserve by buying parts of the excess tariff reception in BTC acquisitions, according to Adam Livingston, author of “The Bitcoin Age and the Great Harvest”.

Livingston proposed to take part of the surpluses generated by commercial prices each month and enter it into a secure and cold storage BTC which is not exchanged, dotted, sold, rehypesé, used to finance programs or secure loans, or loaned for yield. He said:

“In July, we received $ 135.7 billion in customs duties – the pace from last year. Let me repeat that we are sitting on a surplus of $ 70 billion in prices, and we did not even finish the exercise.”

This surplus is not allocated. It is not pre-depressed. It is not linked to health insurance, rights or debt services. It’s just floating, waiting, looking for a productive use case, “said Livingston.

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Cumulative receptors show that the US government has received around $ 136 billion in customs duties throughout the year 2025 so far. Source: US Treasury Department

The proposal to finance the American strategic reserve of Bitcoin with the price rate could be a path for the government to buy more BTC under the decree of the American president Trump, stipulating that the additional BTC can only be acquired by neutral budgetary strategies.

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Scott Bessent, secretary of the United States Treasury Department, said on Thursday that the United States government would not buy any new BTC for the Strategic Reserve

“We are not going to buy this, but we will use confiscated assets and continue to develop this,” Bessent at Fox Business told.