The U.S. Treasury Department will resume Obama-era plans to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill and President Joe Biden wants to accelerate the process, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said.
“We’re exploring ways to speed up that effort,” she said at a briefing for reporters.
The Trump administration slowed plans to replace President Andrew Jackson’s portrait on the $20 with Tubman, the former slave who helped free others in the 19th century using the Underground Railway.
Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced in 2019 that $20 bills with portraits other than Jackson wouldn’t circulate until 2028, and he declined to commit to placing Tubman’s picture on the currency.
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