2026-07-30 10:05:15 UTC / 路透社
作者：贾斯珀·沃德
2026年7月30日 美国东部时间上午10:05 更新于1小时前
2019年6月27日，美国华盛顿财政部台阶上，国会山工作人员在众议院多数党领袖斯坦尼·霍耶（D-马里兰州）就财政部长史蒂夫·姆努钦无限期推迟将著名废奴主义者哈丽特·塔布曼印上新版20美元纸币的决定举行新闻发布会前摆放标语牌。路透社/尤里… 购买授权，打开新标签页查看更多
华盛顿，7月30日 路透社电——美国民主党参议员周四敦促特朗普政府重启将废奴运动先驱哈丽特·塔布曼印上20美元纸币的计划，此前财政部长斯科特·贝森特表示财政部已不再推进该重新设计方案。
奥巴马政府于2016年宣布，19世纪20年代初出生于奴隶制家庭、随后帮助数百名 enslaved 人士逃脱的塔布曼，将取代美国第七任总统安德鲁·杰克逊，成为20美元纸币的正面人物。
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但贝森特本月早些时候表示，财政部“目前”暂无将塔布曼印上纸币的计划。塔布曼本将成为首位出现在美国纸币正面的非裔美国人。
这一决定叫停了一项持续十年、曾获两党支持的工作，此时正值本届政府部分官员推动将唐纳德·特朗普总统的形象印在拟议中的250美元纸币上，此举需国会通过法案方可实现。
“通过货币纪念塔布曼的进程包含了广泛的公众参与，以及两党对她为国家做出的非凡贡献的认可，但你最近的决定无视了这一切，也抛弃了财政部多年来为纪念她的遗产所做的工作，”以新罕布什尔州参议员珍妮·沙欣和马里兰州参议员克里斯·范·霍伦为首的参议员团体在给贝森特的信中写道。
“我们敦促你立即重新考虑，毫无延迟地恢复新版纸币的设计计划，”他们在信中要求贝森特解释做出该决定的依据。
这封信最早由路透社披露。
自1928年以来，美国纸币正面从未更换过新人物，但本届特朗普政府的部分官员曾提议将特朗普的头像印在拟议中的250美元纸币上，以纪念美国独立250周年。
财政部已承认，此举需国会通过立法，允许在世人物出现在美国纸币上。为纪念美国独立250周年而设计的印有特朗普头像的1美元纪念币目前已投入生产，该项目依据2020年纪念币法案获批，这项法案是特朗普在第一任期内签署的。
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US Democratic senators urge Treasury to revive Harriet Tubman $20 bill plan
2026-07-30 10:05:15 UTC / Reuters
By Jasper Ward
July 30, 2026 10:05 AM UTC Updated 1 hour ago
Capitol Hill staff member places signs before a news conference by House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) on Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin’s decision to indefinitely delay putting famous abolitionist Harriet Tubman on the new $20 bill, on the steps of the Treasury Department in Washington, U.S., June 27, 2019. REUTERS/Yuri… Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tabRead more
WASHINGTON, July 30 (Reuters) – U.S. Democratic senators on Thursday urged the Trump administration to revive a plan to place anti-slavery crusader Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the department was no longer pursuing the redesign.
The Obama administration announced in 2016 that Tubman, who was born into slavery in the early 1820s and went on to help hundreds of enslaved people escape, would replace the seventh U.S. President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.
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But Bessent said earlier this month that the Treasury Department was “not at present” planning to put Tubman on the bill. Tubman would have been the first African American on the face of U.S. paper currency.
The decision halts a decade-long effort that had bipartisan support and comes as some administration officials push to put President Donald Trump’s image on a proposed $250 bill, a move that would require an act of Congress.
“The process to celebrate Tubman through our currency included extensive public engagement and bipartisan recognition of her extraordinary contributions to our nation, but your recent decision ignores that and abandons years of work at Treasury to honor her legacy,” a group of senators led by Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire and Chris Van Hollen of Maryland wrote in a letter to Bessent.
“We urge you to immediately reconsider and resume plans to create the new bill without further delay,” they wrote, asking Bessent to explain what informed the decision.
The letter was first shared with Reuters.
No new person has been put on U.S. paper currency since 1928, but some officials in the current Trump administration have sought to put Trump’s face on a proposed $250 bill to mark the United States’ 250th anniversary of independence.
The Treasury Department has acknowledged that such a move would require Congress to pass legislation to allow living persons to appear on U.S. paper currency. A $1 coin bearing Trump’s image to commemorate the U.S. 250th anniversary is now in production, which was authorized by a 2020 commemorative coin law that Trump signed during his first term.
Reporting by Jasper Ward in Washington; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani
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