September 6, 2017
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Tubman on $20 in jeopardy
(AP) – Treasury Secretary
Steven Mnuchin is raising
speculation that Harriet Tub-
man’s future on the $20 bill
could be in jeopardy.
Mnuchin is avoiding a
direct answer when asked
whether he supports the de-
cision made by the Obama
administration to replace
Andrew Jackson on the $20
bill with Harriet Tubman, the
19th century African-Amer-
ican abolitionist famous for
the Underground Railroad.
He says in an interview on
CNBC on Thursday, “People
have been on the bills for a
long period of time. This is
something we’ll consider.
Right now, we have a lot more Harriett Tubman
important issues to focus on.”
During last year’s cam-
paign, Donald Trump praised
Jackson, the nation’s seventh
president, for his “history of
tremendous success” and said
the decision to replace him
with Tubman was “pure polit-
ical correctness.”
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