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Treasury taking steps to create $250 bill with Trump's image Skip to content NOWCAST WESH 2 News at 5 PM Live Now Menu Search News Policies News Local News WESH 2 Investigates National News Politics Get the Facts Parks Central As Seen On WESH 2 Upload Weather Radar Alerts Hurricanes The Science of It Towercams Downtown Orlando Winter Park Port Canaveral Lake Eola NASA NSB Ocala Tavares JW Marriott Orlando World Center Melbourne Daytona Beach Sanford Traffic Sports Buccaneers Friday Night Hits Olympics Community Saving Our Streets CommUNITY Champion WESH 2 the Rescue Project CommUnity Community Calendar/Calendario Comunitario Share Your Christmas LawChat (Sponsored) Memorials Advertise with WESH 2 Advertise with CW18 About News Team Contact Very Local Privacy Notice Terms of Use SUBSCRIBE TO EMAIL Weather Search Press enter to search Type to Search Search location by ZIP code ZIP Advertisement Treasury taking steps to create $250 bill with Trump's image Treasury taking steps to create $250 bill with Trump's image Updated: 4:16 PM EDT May 28, 2026 Editorial Standards ⓘ By BILL BARROW, Associated Press Advertisement Treasury taking steps to create $250 bill with Trump's image Updated: 4:16 PM EDT May 28, 2026 Editorial Standards ⓘ By BILL BARROW, Associated Press Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday that his department has prepared the design for a $250 bill featuring President Donald Trump, anticipating the passage of stalled legislation in Congress to put the president on a new denomination of legal tender.Bessent said at the White House that authorizing the new currency will be up to lawmakers on Capitol Hill, but that “we've created the bill” because “we have to be prepared.”The secretary downplayed the idea that the administration is pushing the matter, despite Trump's penchant for infusing his name and likeness across the nation's capital and into the observances of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Yet he also insisted there is nothing inappropriate about Trump's visage being part of the seminal national celebration.“The president doesn’t do it; the House and the Senate have to do it,” Bessent said at the White House, referring to legislation introduced by Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., that would direct the Treasury Department’s Bureau of Engraving and Printing to put Trump’s face on the new bill to mark the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding.A Treasury Department spokeswoman said the agency has carried out “appropriate planning and due diligence” to implement a potential congressional mandate “to produce a $250 commemorative note which will appropriately recognize the 250th Anniversary of our great nation.” The spokeswoman did not mention Trump.If passed and signed into law by Trump, Wilson's bill would mark an extraordinary recognition for a sitting U.S. leader and comes as Trump has sought to place himself at the center of this year's seminal Independence Day commemorations. The depa
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