Treasury Department confirms it has taken limited steps toward a $250 bill featuring Donald Trump
Treasury says it is preparing in case Congress approves a commemorative note, while staff raised legal concerns because only deceased people may appear on currency.
- The Treasury Department confirmed it is conducting "due diligence" on a planned $250 banknote featuring President Donald Trump, framing the move as proactive preparation in case stalled congressional legislation becomes law.
- The initiative has sparked intense internal friction, leading to the abrupt reassignment of Bureau of Engraving and Printing Director Patricia Solimene, who along with career staff resisted pressure from political appointees to expedite the prototypes.
- The proposal faces a rigid statutory hurdle under an 1866 federal law that explicitly bans living individuals from appearing on U.S. currency, a post-Civil War measure enacted specifically to prevent the glorification of sitting political leaders.
- Initial mock-ups for the "250 AMERICA" bill were designed by British portrait artist Iain Alexander; Trump reportedly reviewed the concepts personally, enthusiastically approving them while suggesting the addition of American flag colors and the semiquincentennial logo.
- The proposal marks the latest effort to integrate Trump's image into federal institutions for the nation's 250th anniversary, arriving shortly after the Treasury announced that his signature will officially appear on future U.S. paper currency.
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Bessent checks CNN’s Kaitlan Collins over ‘terrible edited’ report on Trump $250 bill
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent shut down CNN’s Kaitlan Collins after she repeatedly pressed her questions during a White House briefing. While Bessent initially responded to Collins during Thursday’s press briefing, he was not about to let her biased questioning on a potential $250 bill featuring President Donald Trump’s image stand uncorrected. The two locked horns during the exchange as Bessent eventually reiterated he was taking no more of …
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Will Trump appear on $250 bill? Treasury appointees are pushing for it
President Donald Trump could appear on a proposed new U.S. $250 bill, the first time a living person’s image would be added to U.S. currency in more than 150 years.
Scott Bessent confirms a $250 bill with Trump on it has a prepared design
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday that his department has prepared the design for a $250 bill featuring President Donald Trump, anticipating the passage of stalled legislation in Congress to put the president on a new denomination of legal tender. Bessent said at the White House that authorizing the new currency will be up to lawmakers on Capitol Hill, but that “we’ve created the bill” because “we have to be prepared.” The secretary…
Treasury prepares to make Trump the face of a new $250 bill
WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday that his agency had been working on a mock-up of a $250 note bearing the face of President Donald Trump in preparation for an addition to the nation’s paper currency that would for the first time include the portrait of a living president. The post Treasury prepares to make Trump the face of a new $250 bill appeared first on Hawaii Tribune-Herald.
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