{"id":631999,"date":"2026-07-08T11:40:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T11:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=631999"},"modified":"2026-07-08T11:40:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T11:40:01","slug":"the-harriet-tubman-20-bill-has-been-scrapped-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=631999","title":{"rendered":"The Harriet Tubman $20 bill has been scrapped"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In yet another blow to the reeling \u201cwoke\u201d movement, the plan to put famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman\u2019s face on the $20 bill has been scrapped by the Treasury Department.<\/p>\n

The idea to feature the iconic Underground Railroad anti-slavery activist on the frequently circulated currency was initially hatched during the Obama administration, was shelved by President Donald J. Trump during his first term, and then revived during disgraced former President Joe Biden\u2019s regime, which served as a four-year laboratory for divisive and malicious DEI initiatives.<\/p>\n

In an interview<\/a> with Spectrum News<\/em>, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was asked a question about the status of the long-awaited Tubman twenty and responded \u201cnot at present,\u201d which means that former President Andrew Jackson will continue to be featured on the bill for the foreseeable future, or at least until the Democrats are back in control of the White House. He didn\u2019t elaborate.<\/p>\n

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\"\ud83d\udea8\"Just in: The Treasury Department has scrapped plans for Harriet Tubman to be placed on the $20 Bill<\/p>\n

This means President Andrew Jackson will remain on the $20 Bill for years to come pic.twitter.com\/WQYw5sP18I<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 The Calvin Coolidge Project (@TheCalvinCooli1) July 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Back in 2016, then-Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced the proposal to alter the $20 bill in honor of Tubman, which would have made her the first black woman to be featured on the currency, replacing Jackson, the nation\u2019s seventh president, who has been featured on the note since 1928. Lew said that the decision was reached after thousands of responses expressing support for the overhaul.<\/p>\n

According to lore, the idea may have been inspired by an 11-year-old girl from Massachusetts who wrote a letter to former President Barack Obama asking why there weren\u2019t any women\u2019s faces on the currency.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe came home from school one day, and she said, \u2018Mom, I need to write to the president,\u2019 so I gave her a piece of paper, and that became the really famous letter,\u201d the child\u2019s mother told<\/a> ABC News in 2016. \u201cShe really is just a regular, average, little girl who noticed something that was unfair and decided to do something about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

After being shelved following Trump\u2019s election the first time, the zombie Tubman bill was resurrected by the next administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Treasury Department is taking steps to resume efforts to put Harriet Tubman on the front of the new $20 notes,\u201d then-White House Press Secretary and current MS NOW host told reporters in 2021, according<\/a> to The Hill<\/em>.<\/p>\n

At the time, Psaki said the administration was \u201cexploring ways to speed up the process\u201d and that the national currency should \u201creflect the history and diversity of our country, and Harriet Tubman\u2019s image gracing the new $20 note would certainly reflect that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The latest postponement of the Tubman twenty comes after some have advocated for the current president to be featured on a new $250 bill to mark the nation\u2019s 250th anniversary.<\/p>\n

When asked about why Trump and not Tubman, Bessent responded.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 250 requires an act of Congress, \u2060because \u200byou can\u2019t have a living person (on U.S. currency), and it \u200bwas to commit [sic] \u2013 for the 250th anniversary,\u201d the Treasury secretary told Spectrum News<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor us to change an existing bill, whether it\u2019s $1 through $100, takes many years \u200bin advance,\u201d Bessent said.<\/p>\n

\u201cCommemorating Harriet Tubman would have been the perfect way to honor the women who helped build this country and bravely stood up for freedom and equality throughout our nation\u2019s remarkable 250-year history,\u201d a \u201cdisappointed\u201d Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) said in a statement, according to Spectrum News<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThough Secretary Bessent may be more interested in illegally plastering Donald Trump\u2019s image on a $250 bill, putting a woman on a U.S. bill remains long overdue, and I will keep focusing on finding a path to honor Harriet Tubman\u2019s patriotism and sacrifice,\u201d whined the Democrat lawmaker who has been trying to get Tubman\u2019s face plastered onto the currency for more than a decade.<\/p>\n

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In yet another blow to the reeling \u201cwoke\u201d movement, the plan to put famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman\u2019s face on the $20 bill has been scrapped by the Treasury Department. The idea to feature the iconic Underground Railroad anti-slavery activist on the frequently circulated currency was initially hatched during the Obama administration, was shelved by President… Continue reading The Harriet Tubman $20 bill has been scrapped<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":631988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-empowerment","category-national-security","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=631999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/631988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=631999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=631999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=631999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}