Big Beautiful Bill, $5T Debt Ceiling To Benefit BTC price?

Key takeaways:

• Historical data fail to show a consistent link between Bitcoin price gains and US debt ceiling increases.

• Bitcoin’s resilience reflects investors’ belief that the US dollar will continue to lose value due to US domestic fiscal policy. 

The United States Senate passed US President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” on Tuesday, moving it one step closer to becoming law. The proposed $5 trillion increase to the debt ceiling has stirred significant controversy, and many Bitcoin (BTC) advocates believe the move could be a catalyst for a new all-time high in 2025.

Although several solid analyses point to a bullish outlook for Bitcoin, past US debt ceiling increases and suspensions have generally led to bearish outcomes, at least in the six months that followed. In fact, the June 2023 event stands as the only instance where BTC posted gains afterward.

Some might argue that markets price in these developments in advance. However, that assumption weakens when looking at Bitcoin’s flat performance. On Tuesday, Bitcoin held steady at $105,000, the same level as five months earlier.

Bitcoin’s resilience occurred despite widespread expectations that the Trump administration would push through the debt ceiling increase. At that time, economists projected the government would run out of funds by mid-August.

A Bitcoin bull run holds little relationship to the US debt ceiling

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that the proposed legislation will add at least $3.3 trillion to the federal deficit over the next decade. The nearly 900-page bill passed in the Senate by a one-vote margin and now returns to the US House of Representatives.

Sven Henrich, founder of NorthmanTrader, criticized US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s claims that the bill represents a step toward “controlling the US debt.”

According to Henrich, raising the debt ceiling while “running record deficits” and lowering interest rates aligns with “modern monetary theory” — an approach suggesting that governments can fund expenditures by creating money, rather than through taxes or borrowing.

Rather than focusing solely on lawmakers’ decisions, attention should turn to how the central bank will respond. If the US Federal Reserve maintains higher interest rates, debt servicing costs rise. On the other hand, a shift toward looser monetary policy…