Senate Democrats have demanded a watchdog probe into the money the Treasury Department has burned chasing a $250 bill bearing President Donald Trump’s face.
The push to plant Trump, 80, on the nation’s cash has been bubbling for months.
A law on the books says that only a “deceased individual” can appear on U.S. currency, so the president cannot legally feature on a banknote while he is alive—and a bill introduced by Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) to clear that hurdle has gone nowhere. The Daily Beast reported in May how two Trump appointees had leaned on the government’s money-printers to draw up prototypes anyway.
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