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President Biden‘s Treasury Department is currently in the process of adding American abolitionist and activist, Harriet Tubman‘s portrait to the $20 USD bill.
Following Trump’s administrative choice to let the Obama-era initiative lapse, the current White House press secretary, Jen Psaki has announced that Biden’s Treasury is looking to speed up the process, too. Psaki said, “The Treasury Department is taking steps to resume efforts to put Harriet Tubman on the front of the new $20 notes. It’s important that our money reflect the history and diversity of our country.”
The decision to replace Andrew Jackson with Ms. Tubman was spearheaded by the then-Treasury secretary, Jacob Lew in 2016. However, due to Trump’s opposition, the currency redesign no longer became a priority. Under Lew, the design was initially supposed to unveil in 2020 on the centennial of the 19th Amendment, a milestone for women’s right to vote.
Trump administration quietly eased sanctions against Israeli mining magnate Gertler By Aaron Ross
Supporters of Trump listen during his last speech as president at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland
DAKAR (Reuters) – In its final week in office, former U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration eased sanctions against Israeli mining magnate Dan Gertler that were imposed for alleged corruption in Congo, according to a license issued by the Treasury Department.
The license, which was not announced publicly, was issued by Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), according to a Jan. 15 letter to Gertler’s lawyers that was obtained by The Sentry, a Washington D.C.-based anti-corruption group, and seen by Reuters.
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President-Elect Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Alejandro Mayorkas, raked in millions over the last two years representing multinational corporations in Big Tech and on Wall Street as a corporate lawyer, financial disclosure reports reveal.
Since 2019, Mayorkas made more than $3.3 million as a corporate lawyer for a series of multinational corporations, financial disclosure reports show, including the tech firms Airbnb, Uber, and Cisco Systems, along with the Wall Street firm Blackstone.
Mayorkas also represented T-Mobile, Intuit, the aerospace corporation Northrop Grumman, Clorox, MGM Resorts International, and the engineering company Leidos.
Specifically while representing Uber, Mayorkas helped ensure that the tech giant was complying with federal immigration laws when it packs foreign workers into its driving jobs. While representing T-Mobile, Mayorkas advised the telecommunications corporation as they merged with Sprint to d