**BREAKING: Rep. Chip Roy Files Bill to End Federal Reserve — Then Admits It Was a “Test” to See Who Actually Reads Legislation**
**WASHINGTON, D.C.** — In what is being called the most meta political stunt of the year, Texas Congressman Chip Roy (R-TX) introduced the “Federal Reserve Abolition and Monetary Sovereignty Act” early Tuesday morning. The bill, which would dissolve the Federal Reserve System and return the U.S. to a gold-linked currency, was heralded by grassroots activists and greeted with immediate panic by Wall Street analysts.
Then Roy dropped the hammer.
“If the press and the financial media actually did their jobs and read the bill’s fine print,” Roy told a small gathering of House staffers, “they would have noticed Section 14, Subsection C.” That subsection, we can now confirm, reads: *“This Act shall not take effect unless and until the Supreme Court rules that Congress may constitutionally abolish the national debt by declaring it a ‘statistical fiction.’”*
In other words: the bill was a trap — a surgical strike to expose which pundits, lawmakers, and influencers are simply reacting to headlines without reading the text.
“The same people who screamed ‘this will destroy the economy!’ are the ones who have never actually read the Fed’s own balance sheet,” Roy tweeted an hour later. “I wanted to see who in Washington could tell the difference between a serious proposal and a carefully crafted paper tiger. Spoiler: almost nobody.”
The stunt has ignited a firestorm on both sides of the aisle. Democrats accused Roy of “wasting congressional time for a cynical PR exercise.” Republican leadership, meanwhile, avoided direct comment — perhaps because at least three top GOP members issued statements praising the bill before the clause was revealed.
But here’s where it gets really viral. Finance blogger and former Fed adviser Wendy Lasky posted a screenshot of a cable news chyron from