{"id":16653,"date":"2026-07-08T15:48:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T07:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=16653"},"modified":"2026-07-08T15:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T07:48:10","slug":"trump-administration-puts-plan-for-harriet-tubman-20-bill-on-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=16653","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration puts plan for Harriet Tubman $20 bill on ice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. Treasury Department is no longer planning to put anti-slavery crusader Harriet Tubman on a $20 bill, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has told Spectrum \u200bNews.<br>\u201cWe are not at present,\u201d Bessent said when asked in a Monday \u200cinterview if Treasury was still planning to move ahead with the decade-old plan. Bessent did not elaborate, and a Treasury spokesperson declined to comment beyond Bessent&#8217;s remark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"678\" src=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/\u4f01\u4e1a\u5fae\u4fe1\u622a\u56fe_20260708154632-1024x678.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/\u4f01\u4e1a\u5fae\u4fe1\u622a\u56fe_20260708154632-1024x678.png 1024w, https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/\u4f01\u4e1a\u5fae\u4fe1\u622a\u56fe_20260708154632-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/\u4f01\u4e1a\u5fae\u4fe1\u622a\u56fe_20260708154632-768x509.png 768w, https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/\u4f01\u4e1a\u5fae\u4fe1\u622a\u56fe_20260708154632.png 1039w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Obama administration announced in 2016 that Tubman, who was \u200bborn into slavery in the early 1820s and went on to help hundreds \u200bof slaves escape, would replace seventh U.S. President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.<br>Then-Treasury \u2060Secretary Jacob Lew said the decision was the result of thousands of responses received \u200bfrom Americans.<br>Tubman would have been the first African American on the face of U.S. paper currency.<br>During \u200bhis first presidential campaign, Donald Trump, who has since sought to dismantle diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, called the move to replace Jackson with Tubman &#8220;pure political correctness.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He had proposed putting her on the $2 bill or another bill, and no \u200bprogress was made on the plan during Trump&#8217;s first presidency.<br>Bessent&#8217;s predecessor, former Biden administration Treasury \u200bSecretary Janet Yellen, revived the Tubman $20 bill project but estimated that the new currency would not be \u200cready until \u20602030, citing the need for sophisticated anti-counterfeiting measures.<br>Bessent, in a tense exchange with Representative Joyce Beatty, a Black Democrat from Ohio, was asked in May 2025 whether he could provide an update on the status of the Tubman bill. &#8220;I can&#8217;t, my staff will get back to \u200byou,&#8221; he replied.<br>While no \u200bnew person has been \u2060put on U.S. paper currency since 1928, some officials in the current Trump administration have sought to put the Republican president&#8217;s face on \u200ba proposed $250 bill to mark the United States&#8217; 250th anniversary of \u200bindependence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Treasury Department is no longer planning to put anti-slavery crusader Harriet Tubman on a $20 bill, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has told Spectrum \u200bNews.\u201cWe are not at present,\u201d Bessent said when asked in a Monday \u200cinterview if Treasury was still planning to move ahead with the decade-old plan. 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