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John,
This summer, the Treasury is expected to begin printing new $100 bills, and Donald Trump has decided that they should feature his signature. This would be the first time in American history that our currency would include the signature of a sitting president.
That's right – for more than 165 years, U.S. currency has followed a simple rule: no sitting president’s signature is featured. That was an intentional guardrail, set in place to keep our money from becoming a tool for ego or self-promotion.
Now Trump is crossing that line, and treasury officials have said the quiet part out loud, calling it a “tribute.”
Once he crosses this line, where does the vanity stop? Today, it’s a signature on our currency, tomorrow, it could be a huge tax-payer funded statue.
After that, who knows?
Our money should belong to all of us. It shouldn’t become a self-promotion platform for any one specific leader.
Congress still has the opportunity to step in and stop this before the first Trump bills enter circulation.
Sign on now to tell Congress: Keep politics off our money and stop the Treasury from allowing our cash to become a Trumpian billboard.
Thanks for taking action,
Democratic Values
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