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Harriet Tubman Bill Delayed Until 2028

All of a sudden counterfeiting is an issue when it has to do with a Black woman being on currency? Sure, Jan.
Harriet Tubman Bill Delayed Until 2028
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By Yesha Callahan · Updated October 23, 2020

The Harriet Tubman $20 bill redesign was supposed to be unveiled in 2020, to mark the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment, which granted women the right to vote. But on Wednesday, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin stated the bill would not be unveiled until 2028, according to The Tennessean.

During a hearing before the House Financial Services Committee,  Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., questioned Mnuchin about the progress of the bill—only to be met with what sounded like an excuse to further deny Harriet Tubman the honor.

.@RepPressley grills Mnuchin on the Trump administration's move to reverse a previous decision to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. Mnuchin says he's focused on "security features," not imagery. pic.twitter.com/rKuS1Xhtc2

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 22, 2019

“The primary reason we have 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 $10 and $50 bills are the ones with the counterfeiting issues – so, therefore, they get priority? Or is the $20 bill only being put on the back burner because Donald Trump slammed the idea of it in 2016, calling it “pure political correctness?”

In any event, social media is heated over the delayed Tubman bill:

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

I call BS!!!

“The primary reason we have looked at redesigning the currency is for counterfeiting issues,” Mnuchin said in response to questions from Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., during a hearing before the House Financial Services Committee…. https://t.co/dgAawSeOB6

— Kathy Day (@kday9) May 22, 2019

If (as Mnuchin says) the redesigns are to fight counterfeiting, why fix the $10 first, given that the $20 is presumably faked more often? Surely it has *nothing* to do with Trump saying in 2016 that putting Tubman on the $20 was "political correctness." https://t.co/9HxplwsIUz

— Eric Columbus (@EricColumbus) May 22, 2019

People aren’t dumb, they know exactly what is happening.

TOPICS:  Harriet Tubman $20 Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin tubman bill delayed 2028
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