Treasury scraps plans to put Harriet Tubman on $20 bill
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the department is not moving forward, after the redesign was delayed for years over technology and timing.
- On Monday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed the Treasury Department has abandoned the decade-old plan to feature Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, telling Spectrum News, "We are not at present."
- President Barack Obama's treasury secretary, Jack Lew, originally announced the redesign in 2016 to honor Tubman, who is credited with conducting 13 missions on the Underground Railroad to free approximately 70 slaves.
- Criticizing the proposal on the 2016 campaign trail, President Donald Trump called it "pure political correctness," and his first administration subsequently delayed the project until at least 2026.
- Bessent contrasted the Tubman decision with ongoing preparations for a $250 bill featuring Trump's portrait, noting the $250 note requires an act of Congress because current law prohibits featuring a living person on currency.
- Ernestine Wyatt, a relation of Tubman, told CNN in 2019 that pushing the redesign to 2028 "smacks of racist rhetoric" and represented "just another delay and a diversion.
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