Speaks volumes

The new $20 bill featuring Harriet Tubman has been delayed, leaving Andrew Jackson to remain in his place on the currency until 2028, secretary of the treasury Steven Mnuchin announced yesterday. The bill featuring Tubman, an escaped slave who later led others to freedom as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, was set to be unveiled in 2020, which would have coincided with the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage, another cause that Tubman supported.

Mnuchin cited “security feature redesign” and anti-counterfeiting efforts as the reason for the delay. But the New York Times reported that “Mnuchin, concerned that the president might create an uproar by canceling the new bill altogether, was eager to delay its redesign until Mr. Trump was out of office, some senior Treasury Department officials have said.”

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So, 2021, then.

Now, the new bill, announced by former President Barack Obama in 2016, is being postponed until 2026 and won’t enter circulation until 2028.

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Trump has also made known his ambivalence about the decision to replace Jackson, who owned slaves and whose forced relocation of Native Americans led to the deaths of tens of thousands on the Trail of Tears.

“Andrew Jackson had a great history, and I think it’s very rough when you take somebody off the bill,” Trump told the Today show as a presidential candidate in 2016, suggesting that Tubman might appear on the discontinued $2 bill instead.

Dick.