From ABC News:
“Trump's signature will be
added to US currency, Treasury says”
President Donald Trump’s
signature will be added to future U.S. paper currency, the Treasury Department
announced Thursday. Trump will become the first sitting president whose name
will appear on currency. It follows efforts to create two coins with his image
on them, a $1 coin and a special 24-karat commemorative gold coin. President
Calvin Coolidge was the only sitting president to have a coin with his image on
it.
Federal law says no living
president can appear on U.S. currency, though the administration has argued the
restriction does not apply to coins. "Under President Trump’s leadership,
we are on a path toward unprecedented economic growth, lasting dollar
dominance, and fiscal strength and stability,” Secretary of the Treasury Scott
Bessent said in a statement on Thursday. “There is no more powerful way to
recognize the historic achievements of our great country and President Donald
J. Trump than U.S dollar bills bearing his name, and it is only appropriate
that this historic currency be issued at the Semiquincentennial,” he added.
The Treasury said the decision
was in honor of the 250th anniversary of the United States. Last week, the
federal Commission of Fine Arts officially voted to approve a new 24-karat
commemorative gold coin featuring President Donald Trump, amid backlash from
Democrats and other stakeholders. The image included in the proposal is based on
a photo taken of Trump in the White House.
https://abcnews.com/Politics/trumps-signature-added-us-currency-treasury/story?id=131451419
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