A decade ago, a plan was launched to put Harriet Tubman’s face on the $20 bill. However, it appears that is no longer happening.
Spectrum News reports that the Trump Administration has abandoned the plans, instead deciding to keep Andrew Jackson on the front and a photo of the White House on the back.
Tubman was an American abolitionist who helped conduct 13 missions on the Underground Railroad that freed around 70 slaves. She also served as an advocate for women's voting rights after slavery was abolished.
As for Jackson, he was the seventh President of the United States and favored slavery.
In 2016, President Barack Obama’s Treasury Secretary Jack Lew shared a letter to the public in which he first talked about the change where the front of the $20 bill would have Tubman’s face, while the back would be Jackson and a photo of the White House. At first, they planned to release the new bill in 2020.
This would have made Tubman both the first woman on an American Bill as well as the first Black individual.
However, during Trump's presidential campaign that same year, he spoke out against it, calling the plan “pure political correctness.” During his first term, he pushed the plan back to 2026. Then, when Joe Biden was elected, it was once again pushed back to 2030.
Recently, when asked by Spectrum News about the plans regarding Tubman and the $20 bill, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that they do not currently intend to do so. The outlet further added that they reached out to the White House, asking if President Trump had directed the Treasury Department to end these plans.
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