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A new push from Trump appointees to give paper bills a facelift with the Treasury Department saying it's getting ready to
print $250 bills with President Trump's face on them.
There's just one hiccup.
It's against the law to put a living person on US currency.
It hasn't been done in more than 150 years.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bassin addressing the effort as the United States gears up for its 250th birthday.
>> I don't think that the there's anything untoward about having the President of the United States, that the person who was President of the United States on the 250th anniversary bill.
>> Adding there's proposed legislation on Capitol Hill to change the requirement so the sitting president could be on the bill.
But that act was introduced more than a year ago and Independence Day is rapidly approaching.
The president, long known to plaster his name on real estate, has been literally leaving his mark on American institutions.
His administration tacking his name onto the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a move a judge ordered reversed just today.
But also rolling out other Trump-branded government programs like discount drug site Trump Rx and Trump savings accounts, putting his face in some passports to be issued this summer, and even hoisting up banners at the Justice Department, leading to criticism.
But it doesn't stop there as the president seems to like putting his stamp on money.
In March the Treasury said it would include President Trump's signature on paper currency, a first for president while in office.
And a federal commission of Trump-appointed members approved the president's face on 24-karat commemorative gold coins.
But significantly changing legal tender can be a bigger lift.
A decade ago now that the Obama administration released plans to replace former President Andrew Jackson, a slave owner, on the $20 bill with Harriet Tubman, a civil rights leader who escaped slavery.
Trump always lukewarm on that proposal.
>> Harriet Tubman is fantastic. I would love to I would love to leave Andrew Jackson and see if we can maybe come up with another denomination. Maybe we do the $2 bill or we do another bill.
>> The whole initiative essentially stalled.
Fast forward to now, the Treasury Department says it's ready to print the new bills if it gets the green light from Congress, potentially leaving the president's legacy on American's money in more ways than one.
Monica Alba, NBC News, The White House.
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