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Harriet Tubman won’t be featured on the $20 bill until 2028: Mnuchin
NYPost ^ | May 22, 2019

Posted on 05/22/2019 6:45:50 PM PDT by SMGFan

Anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman won’t appear on US currency for nearly a decade, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Wednesday.

An image of Tubman, a former slave who helped others escape to freedom through the Underground Railroad, was supposed to replace President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill next year.

“The primary reason we’ve looked at redesigning the $20 bill is for counterfeiting issues,” Mnuchin said in front of Congress on Wednesday.

“Based upon this, the new $20 bill will now not come out until 2028,” he added.

President Trump criticized the plan to replace Jackson on the note during the 2016 presidential campaign.

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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: currency; harriettubman; mnuchin; trumpcabinet; trumptreasury; tubman
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To: SMGFan

61 posted on 05/22/2019 9:43:43 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Yossarian
But you're still playing into the Left's hands though. No one had a problem with Jackson on the $20 until the Left had to use someone like Tubman (so if anyone complains they can be accused of racism) to get their foot in the door so they can eliminate all the Founders or Presidents on currency and replace them with Marxist thugs or liberal activists.

And yes, the comment about Tubman was reprehensible, but you know and I know that if she appears on the $20, a lot of people aren't going to use them anymore. Part of the reason is no one knows who she is thank to liberals destroying education, and part is Harriet isn't exactly telegenic.

62 posted on 05/22/2019 9:46:05 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Isn't it funny that the very people who scream "My body, my choice" wants a say in your healthcare?)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
(...) the Left had to use someone like Tubman to get their foot in the door so they can eliminate all the Founders or Presidents on currency and replace them with Marxist thugs or liberal activists.

I agree with you here. Any switch of current portrait subjects opens the doors to all manner of propaganda. Better to keep the status quo until we can retake the educational institutions from the leftists.

63 posted on 05/22/2019 9:52:08 PM PDT by Yossarian
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To: Licensed-To-Carry

Y’know, Aunt Esther was a good Christian woman.


65 posted on 05/22/2019 10:57:15 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
"Do you see any girls naming themselves Harriet?"

That's 'cuz this lady ruined the name.


66 posted on 05/22/2019 10:59:57 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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To: SMGFan

Stupid Freepers at their finest


67 posted on 05/22/2019 11:14:06 PM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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To: Bommer

Does not belong on any bill.


68 posted on 05/22/2019 11:19:35 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Bommer

One very ugly customer who belongs on the $30 bill ...


69 posted on 05/23/2019 1:45:48 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: gundog

Just in time for the renaming of Washington D.C. to Obamaville.


70 posted on 05/23/2019 2:55:15 AM PDT by Vehmgericht
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To: SMGFan

Push it off until it is forgotten, this is absolutely ridiculous. Removing a founding father for this?


71 posted on 05/23/2019 3:39:03 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: SMGFan

The foolish decision to replace Andrew Jackson’s portrait with anyone would have been bad for America. President Jackson’s portrait is iconic and helps ensure respect for U.S. currency around the world. And Jackson looks completely cool in that portrait.

If you want to dump someone, dump Hamilton from the $10 bill. Alexander H was an actual bastard who cheated on his wife and paid hush money to keep it quiet. Plus, his portrait looks like a dork. He was never President and did not come up with cool ideas and inventions like Ben Franklin did.


72 posted on 05/23/2019 3:44:40 AM PDT by advance_copy (Stand for life or nothing at all)
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To: SMGFan
“The primary reason we’ve looked at redesigning the $20 bill is for counterfeiting issues,” Mnuchin said in front of Congress on Wednesday.

That takes 9 years?

73 posted on 05/23/2019 3:55:30 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Yossarian

That’s a great pic. Who has the authority to select exactly WHICH picture will be used? Imagine the look on Rat faces if the bills were released and this is what they see. Delicious! Does a committee decide? Is it Mnuchin? Trump? Seriously, we need to start a petition or something.


74 posted on 05/23/2019 3:58:05 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: DoodleDawg

wouldn’t counterfeiting best copy a $20 of 2009?


75 posted on 05/23/2019 4:07:34 AM PDT by SMGFan ("God love ya! What am I talking about")
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To: SMGFan
wouldn’t counterfeiting best copy a $20 of 2009?

The twenty has had a number of anti-counterfeiting features added over the years - security strip, background colors, watermarks, color shifting number. I don't know how much more they are planning to do or why it takes 9 years to do it.

It's probably just to delay taking Jackson off of it, which was a dumb idea to begin with.

76 posted on 05/23/2019 4:17:37 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: o-n-money

“Nice to see a gun-toting Republican on a bill.”

Harriet Tubman money represents a gun-toting, cigar-chomping, Whiskey Drinking hardcore Republican. Which is in fact something that she actually was, along with being a brave hearted Woman


77 posted on 05/23/2019 4:31:33 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: lightman

LOL! I thought of that, too!


78 posted on 05/23/2019 5:08:23 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin ("And she and Billie Jeff was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge...")
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To: Yossarian

That’s a Colt Peacemaker she has in her hand. A little early for that firearm.


79 posted on 05/23/2019 5:20:25 AM PDT by dljordan
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