*The Trump administration has announced that the redesigned $20 bill featuring Harriet Tubman will not be unveiled in 2020, as originally planned.
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin confirmed as much during a House Financial Services Committee hearing Wednesday, Complex reports, saying the updated bill is unlikely to roll out while the former reality star occupies the white house.
“The primary reason we’ve looked at redesigning the currency is for counterfeiting issues,” Mnuchin said. “Based upon this, the $20 bill will now not come out until 2028. The $10 bill and the $50 bill will come out with new features beforehand. So, the answer is: It is my responsibility now to focus on what is the issue of counterfeiting and the security features. The ultimate decision on the redesign will most likely be another secretary’s down the road.”
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They’re out here trying to erase Harriet Tubman but fighting for Robert E Lee statues. We see you.
— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) May 22, 2019
When Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) asked Mnuchin if he supports Tubman being on the $20 bill, he responded: “I’ve made no decision as it relates to that.”
The Tubman bill was announced in April 2016, an Obama administration initiative. Mnuchi says the redesign will be postponed until at least 2026, and the bill itself will not roll out until 2028. Until then, $20 bills with former President Andrew Jackson’s face will continue to circulate.
The redesign was scheduled to be unveiled in 2020 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote.
During the 2016 presidential race, Trump called the redesign “pure political correctness” and suggested Tubman be added to the $2 bill.
“Andrew Jackson had a great history, and I think it’s very rough when you take somebody off the bill,” Trump said at the time.
“I don’t like seeing it. Yes, I think it’s pure political correctness,” he said during a town hall event on the TODAY show. “[Jackson has] been on the bill for many, many years, and, you know, really represented somebody that really was very important to this country. I would love to see another denomination, and that could take place. I think—I think it would be more appropriate.”
Check out some of the reactions below to the delayed $20 bill redesign:
“Delayed due to redesign”! There are very few people more worthy of praise when it comes to sacrificing all they have for the love of people. Harriet Tubman should be canonized!! pic.twitter.com/54BvFLTind
— nuttyprofessor (@abrontoure) May 22, 2019
The white supremacists running this country are not about to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill to have y’all contemplating racism and resistance every time y’all go to the ATM. Y’all gonna get that good ol’ agent of genocide Andrew Jackson
— Bree Newsome Bass (@BreeNewsome) May 22, 2019
The Trump Administration delayed placing “Harriet Tubman” on the $20 bill and is leaving Andrew Jackson on the currency until 2028.. Tubman liberated African American slaves. Andrew Jackson unrepentantly owned them…. Yeah that’s totes American values in this day and age. pic.twitter.com/brnJHDQiph
— Catherine Adel West ❤?? (@cawest329) May 22, 2019
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