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    Finanzminister Scott Bessent bereitet Banken darauf vor, Staatsbürgerschaftsdaten zu sammeln

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    1. catievirtuesimp on

      “The Trump administration is drafting an executive order that would require every bank customer in America to prove their citizenship or lose access to their account.

      This includes existing account holders. People who have banked in the same place for decades.

      And it falls hardest on women.

      Here’s why: REAL ID is explicitly excluded as proof. That leaves passports and birth certificates. But approximately 69 million American women have a birth certificate that no longer matches our legal name because they changed it when they got married. To bridge that gap, they’d need to produce marriage certificates, divorce decrees, or court orders. A documentation chain no male customer faces.

      Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed on April 13, 2026 this order is actively „in process.“

      This comes on top of the SAVE Act, which puts the same documentation barriers between women and their right to vote. The same 69 million women. Targeted twice, at the ballot box and at the bank.

      Losing bank access means:
      → No direct deposit
      → No mortgage or rent payments
      → No credit history
      → No electronic Social Security or disability benefits
      → No ability to run a business

      Women secured the right to independent banking just 52 years ago. It was hard-won. We should not be watching it quietly eroded by executive order.

      I’ve published a full factual briefing on my Substack linked in comments covering the legal framework, the documents being proposed, and the full downstream impact.”

      -Natalie M. Fleming
      Independent Candidate, U.S. Senate, Idaho

      [article](https://nfleming.substack.com/p/trumps-banking-citizenship-proposal?fbclid=IwdGRleARSOatleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeGSF9yFvbQL43aXrD6XUcpd6S1wQPOkW2hwERaf4yqvxguZXWi71uYCgWu1M_aem_sdgIMm9PJpns0MXV4TDF4w&utm_id=97758_v0_s00_e223_tv0)

    4. Stephine_Juulia on

      this has the exact energy of a policy somebody swears is narrow and temporary right before it becomes permanent account paperwork

    5. PDXGuy33333 on

      Federal agencies promulgate rules using a process of proposal, public comment and hearings. That process will result in an avalanche of public and institutional resistance to any such rules, and without a rule requiring them to do it, banks will not be collecting or reporting citizenship data.

      Hell, my birth certificate is a paper copy embossed with some sort of seal from the state I was born in or some hospital administrator. There is no way that that the 1 or 2 employees at my bank branch who have not been replaced with AI and ATM’s would ever be able to figure out whether it’s a legit birth certificate or something I made yesterday.

    6. Linda-Letra on

      Cool, so your checking account is apparently auditioning for border patrol now

    8. literallytwisted on

      No thanks! I don’t work for the President so I have no reason to comply with his memo, There are also many alternatives to „Traditional banking“ that I will happily use while he loses in court.

      It would be funny watching the big banks that donated to Trump try to survive the biggest bank run since the depression.

    9. OpenImagination9 on

      Yeah … go ahead and encourage a couple of trillion in sudden withdrawals and see what happens to the banking system.

    11. GhostalMedia on

      This is going to push so many more people into unregulated and uninsured crytpo, and more businesses are going to need to accept crypto since that’s what’s in people’s wallets.

      And that’s what these rich billionaires want. They want unregulated financial markets so they can line their pockets even more.

      And it comes at the expense of normal people experiencing volatility that can bankrupt you.

    14. BUYMEBONESTOORM on

      Somehow I doubt anyone will comply with this as it will hurt their bottom line. An executive order just holds absolutely no power for this kind of thing.

    18. lodemeup on

      In what capacity do banks have to abide EOs? They aren’t laws. Aren’t EOs just in house rules for the executive branch?

    19. noots-to-you on

      Even if this wasn’t going down in flames before it’s penned. Pretty sure I’ve to give my ss# to open a bank account- same as a non-prepaid cellphone. It may not prove citizenship but it’s close enough.

    20. BritishBenzene on

      Once again, like with age verification: The government considers all data collected by third parties to be “fair game” to be collected without a warrant. Given that, what are they trying to achieve here?

    22. HiDHSiknowyouwatchme on

      If my bank asks, I’m going to send them a polite „Go fuck yourself“ and then I’ll withdraw all of my money. It wouldn’t take a huge percentage of us to cause a run on the banks. And since Trump has completely hobbled FDIC, we could truly break the economy in a way that they are not at all prepared for.

    23. willismthomp on

      It’s getting to the point boys. Where these oily fucks are going to try to push down hard to stop what they see boiling over. They are getting scared but they are keeping with the tactic of trying to spook you. Stand up speak up.

    25. Neologic29 on

      The dumbest part is you needed a birth certificate or passport to get a real ID. Did these fucks fall asleep when the transitive property was being discussed in school?? Real ID is the proof of citizenship already. I fucking hate these god damn assholes.

    26. Fragrant_Rooster_763 on

      Banks will sue the piss out of the government for this. They aren’t a government entity, the government will not tell them who their customers can be.

    27. ong378 on

      Criticize the regime and you lose your money is the message. I’ll never forgive anyone that voted for Trump because its setting the country back by decades worth of progress in all facets of life.

    28. digitallis on

      I’m confused. Every bank I’ve ever opened an account at has demanded an SSN and refused to open an account otherwise. Were they wrong, special cases, or did I just not say the magic words?

    29. Anxious_Republic591 on

      Verifying existing account holders…

      Millions of hours of paperwork…

      So how long are we all without access to our funds while they verify existing accounts?

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