Just carrying this info over from the tail end of last bread. Minor point with everything else going on, but it's a great example on how the media is used to divide the people and get us fighting with each other.

The Obama Treasury announced in 2016 they "wanted" Tubman on the $20. Problem is - the executive branch (Treasury Dept.) can't implement this on its own without lawmaker approval.

Congress writes laws directing changes in designs of coin and currency. Treasury decides the final design for artistic and technical reasons subject to specifications dictated by Congress.

Buried deep in the last paragraph of this NYT Trump-hate diatribe the author acknowledges the fact that CONGRESS HAS NEVER AUTHORIZED A DESIGN CHANGE. I can't find that anyone in Congress has even written a bill to be voted on.

'“At Women On 20s, we’re not surprised that Secretary Mnuchin may be kicking the design reveal of the $20 bill to sometime beyond the potential interference of a Trump presidency,” the group said in a statement CALLING ON CONGRESS TO PASS LEGISLATION (my caps) to add Tubman to the currency. '

It's all bait. Don't fall for it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/us/harriet-tubman-bill.html