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Mnuchin has denied that political considerations were a factor, but current and former Treasury Department officials told the Times that Mnuchin postponed the bill in order to avoid the possibility that Trump might cause an uproar by cancelling it all together. Last month, the Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin, citing the development of new security features, told a congressional committee that the début would be delayed until 2026, leaving the question of the redesign to a future Administration. The design of the Tubman twenty-dollar bill was set to début in 2020, the centenary of the right of women- white women-to vote, as was a redesign of the ten-dollar bill, which would have displayed suffragists including Susan B. More than six hundred thousand people voted for the winner: Harriet Tubman, the abolitionist, nurse, scout, and spy for the northern states during the Civil War. Boosted by legislation introduced by the Democratic congressman Luis Gutiérrez, of Illinois, the Women on 20s campaign conducted a contest, pitting fifteen female figures, including Eleanor Roosevelt, Margaret Sanger, and Rosa Parks, against one another. Why not replace Andrew Jackson-an architect of the forced removal and slaughter of native peoples, and a slave owner-on the twenty-dollar bill instead? There had been fights to remove Jackson for decades here was the chance. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical about Hamilton had vaulted him to untouchable popularity. But the effort, framed as something of an enterprise in feminist education, wasn’t received too warmly. In 2015, the Treasury Department, under President Obama, announced that it would add a woman of historical import to the ten-dollar bill, replacing Alexander Hamilton. Grant’s fifty, in 2004, and a dapper quill to Franklin’s C-note, in 2009, the designs of American bills have not changed in recent memory. Apart from the addition of rippling stars and stripes to Ulysses S.
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We are accustomed only to green-a durable pigment, hostile to chemical change-and to the unsmiling faces of Presidents and Founding Fathers. Leafing through these foreign notes, an American is amazed by the splashes of purple and orange and blue. The blush-toned Tanzanian shilling shows houses of government against blooming flora. The design differences between the dollar and the euro, the dollar and the Ghanaian cedi, and the dollar and the Brazilian real lie in the use of color and texture, and the style of state-controlled regalia. One is confronted with this fact at the currency-exchange counters at airports, where one’s workaday green stack of bills is traded for a pile of paper art. American money is unbeautiful-uniquely so.