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Biden admin follows Obama s footsteps to put abolitionist hero Harriet Tubman on $20 bill
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A female historical figure has not graced United States paper currency in well over a century.
While there was a recent announcement that the Biden administration intends to speed up the effort to place a portrait of Harriet Tubman on the front of the $20 bill, it is expected to take nearly a decade before that note is in circulation.
Sojourner Truth and other iconic American women s rights activists may grace paper money before the Tubman $20 is released, according to a timeline provided by the U.S. Department of Treasury and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
Ed MorrisseyPosted at 12:01 pm on January 26, 2021
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The question here is less whether Paul Waldman bothers to read any conservatives, and more about whether he reads the Washington Post. Last night, Waldman asserted in a WaPo column that conservatives are aghast at the thought of replacing Andrew Jackson with Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, and that this new reality was part of the Right’s grieving process. As evidence for this, Waldman produces … no examples whatsoever (via Twitchy):
Back in 2016, when Barack Obama was president, the Treasury Department announced that the $20 bill would be redesigned to feature Harriet Tubman, the former enslaved person who led others to freedom. In order to avoid offending people too much, President Andrew Jackson, who currently occupies the front of the $20, would not be banished completely but would have his image placed on the back of the bill, rather smaller in size.