Maryland’s most famed abolitionist might not be replacing Andrew Jackson on U.S. currency after all, according to one of Donald Trump’s Cabinet members.
Asked yesterday about whether the Obama-era plan to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill is still happening, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin told CNBC, “Ultimately we will be looking at this issue. It’s not something I’m focused on at the moment.”
President Obama’s treasury secretary, Jack Lew, last year moved to replace Jackson, a slave owner president who forced tens of thousands of Native Americans to relocate — killing several thousand in the process — with Tubman, who helped free hundreds of slaves before and during the Civil War.
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