The plates have existed since 2018, but Trump’s treasury secretary, Steve Mnuchin, said it would take 10 years to start printing the bills because of “technical difficulties.”
Yeah, a racist in the White House who can’t stand black people — least of all, black voters — and is a big admirer of the incumbent likeness on the $20 bill, Andrew Jackson, slaveowner and genocidal Indian killer, is a technical difficulty.
But not for much longer. With the “technical difficulties” about to disappear, I see no reason why the 10-year rollout can’t be shortened to a few weeks, or anyway, a few months. Incoming treasury secretary Janet Yellen should look into it. And with all the money the government is printing — another $2.3 trillion this week — it’s not like the treasury couldn’t use some more twenties.
Read more about the “technical difficulties” here.
(image is not actual size or real currency; don’t try to pass this at a Seven-Eleven)
There could be a musical called “Jackson” as the future hit wonder of a reopened Broadway.
It is of course the irony of having a President that did not support a National Bank nor paper money is the most likely reason Jackson is on the twenty at all. Our treasury department little joke.
And will we care in a hundred years. Not like Lady Justice was on the twenty, oh she was several times