Trump administration officials are pushing the Treasury Department’s Bureau of Engraving and Printing to design a $250 bill featuring Trump’s portrait, The Washington Post reports.

It would be the “first appearance of a living person on U.S. currency in more than 150 years,” the outlet wrote.

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Should the Treasury Department move ahead with the plan, it would mark the first time a living person’s face was slapped on a greenback since 1866.

The $250 note would be a nod to America’s 250th birthday this year.

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Under the Thayer Amendment, which passed in 1866, it is illegal to put the likeness of a living person on official US currency, bonds, or other financial notes.

Nonetheless, US Treasurer Brandon Beach and his top adviser, Mike Brown, pushed for development of the new banknote, with Beach giving staff mock-up designs in August and September last year, according to the report.

The mock-ups featured Trump’s face in the middle of the $250 note as well as the president’s and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s signatures.

Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing Patricia Solimene reportedly protested to Beach and Brown that there are legal and other hurdles the agency needs to clear to make a new banknote.

“By the end of Trump’s term, it’ll be just enough to buy one gallon of gas and a carton of eggs,” Hillary Clinton commented.

“How long until we see your signature next to President Trump’s face on a $250 bill?” Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

“As Treasury Secretary, I have two mandates for U.S. currency, at present. No living person can be on U.S. currency, and the currency must say ‘In God We Trust,'” Bessent responded.

“So right now there is proposed legislation, in front of the House and in front of the Senate, to change the first requirement so that a living person, Donald J. Trump, could be on the $250 bill,” he continued.

“Should this legislative mandate be signed into law, the BEP (Bureau of Engraving and Printing) is moving proactively to produce a $250 commemorative note which will appropriately recognize the 250th Anniversary of our great nation,” a spokesperson told CNN, according to Collin Rugg.

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The Hill noted:

In March, the Treasury Department announced it would add Trump’s signature to paper currency to commemorate the U.S.’s 250th birthday, marking the first time a sitting president’s signature is set to appear on currency.

“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,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a prior statement.

 

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