The US treasury is taking steps to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, as was planned under Barack Obama.
Harriet Tubman was a 19th-century abolitionist and political activist who escaped slavery herself, then took part in the rescues of hundreds of enslaved people, using the network of activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad.
In 2016, Obama decided Tubman should replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, leading to celebrations that an escaped slave would be honored instead of a slaveowner president.
Donald Trump, who placed a portrait of Jackson, who also directed genocidal campaigns against Native Americans, prominently in the Oval Office, blocked the Obama plan.
Joe Biden has now revived it, White House press secretary Jen Psaki telling reporters on Monday the treasury was “exploring ways to speed up” the process and adding: “It’s important that our money reflect the history and diversity of our country.”
The president has replaced the Jackson portrait in the Oval Office with one of Benjamin Franklin, the founder who appears on the $100 bill. Such bills are known to some as “Benjamins”. Obama once said he hoped the new $20 bills would come to be known as “Tubmans”.
I just saw where Manure Bota tweeted a demand for it saying that she was a badass and former Wicomico County Councilman Marc Kilmer retweeted it. You know when those two RINOs want something it’s always a bad idea!
Oh yeah, not in office a week. This is real important stuff. Going be long rough ride with this dummy.
can i get my change back in all $10’s?
1) If we were really in a pandemic, this wouldn’t even be in the top 500 of the priority list
2) Nobody wants to look at arguably the ugliest woman ever everytime they make a cash transaction
Will all these queers please relent? All I want is to be able to Pee and putting a woman that wants to pee BEFORE me slows the line down especially simply because they think they qualify as a different gender. Please piss your pants and leave us normals alone!
Put Trump on the $100 bill !!!!!
Offensive to at least 75 million. Nope wont happen.
Pander much?
The cost of reprinting replacement bills with the same serial number is over $4.00 each.
Just think of how many bills will have to be reprinted for the “N” word being written on them.
Bills are reprinted when damaged or vandalized.
This is why some bills you get have a STAR after the serial number, it is a reprinted replacement for that bill.
They tried this with the Sacagawea and the Susan B. Anthony dollars.
Nobody wanted them.