Warner Statement on the Administration’s Push for a $250 Bill Featuring Trump’s Portrait

WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA), a senior member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, issued the following statement after a report that Trump administration officials have pushed for the creation of a new $250 bill featuring President Donald Trump’s portrait – an unprecedented move that would place a living person on U.S. currency for the first time in more than 150 years: “As Americans struggle with the rising cost of gas, groceries, housing, and health care, President Trump’s priorities for taxpayer dollars are completely detached from the challenges families face every day: a gold-plated ballroom; a monument blocking Arlington National Cemetery; renaming buildings and airports after himself; rewards for allies who attacked the Capitol on January 6; a passport bearing his image; and now, apparently, even a proposal for a $250 bill with his face on it. If this White House put even half as much energy into working to lower costs as it does into stoking the president’s ego, American families wouldn’t need that new $250 bill just to fill up their gas tanks.” ###