Alexander Hamilton, hip hop Broadway star, to stay on $10 bill, report says

Alexander Hamilton, hip hop Broadway star, to stay on $10 bill, report says

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew will advertise that Alexander Hamilton will break on the foreground of the $10 bill Wednesday, Politico reported, while women's voting rights activists will go on the aback of the bill.

Meanwhile, the address said, above President Andrew Jackson will be replaced on the foreground of the $20 bill by anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman.

Lew already advised agreement women's voting rights avant-garde Susan B. Anthony on the $10 bill, according to an centralized Treasury advertisement appear Wednesday by the Wall Street Journal.

Lew, however, switched advance and absitively to ask for accessible animadversion about which woman should be on the bill. Anthony has already been featured on a $1 bread from 1979 to 1981 and afresh in 1999.

"The March 2015 memo, which hadn’t ahead been reported, sheds new ablaze on a brace of long-running bill dramas," the Journal reported.

Hamilton, the nation's aboriginal Treasury secretary, is the accountable of a accepted Broadway musical, which was awarded a Pulitzer Prize Monday.

The accommodation on the $10 bill has been the focus of abundant absorption in the endure week. On Monday, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said it's up to Lew.

"It, of course, is not at all aberrant for the Treasury Department to argue with the White House area adapted if authoritative important action decisions," Earnest said. "But I don’t accept any account to accomplish on Treasury’s behalf, at atomic not today."

Alexander Hamilton, hip hop Broadway star, to stay on $10 bill, report says

On Friday, Earnest said, "Lew has approved a calmness of purpose in demography a attending at what the next bearing of U.S. bill would attending like. Obviously, there are updates that are fabricated to our bill based on aegis requirements. And the catechism that he has advised is if those aegis updates are required, should we accomplish some changes to our bill to accomplish abiding that it bigger reflects the country, and absolutely the role that women accept played in accidental to the development of our country.

"And he has adumbrated that that attending will aftereffect in changes getting fabricated not just to the $10, but to the $5 and the $20. But above that, we’ll accept to delay for an advertisement from the Treasury Department."

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