Overview
- The Treasury Department, which announced the change Thursday, said printing will start in June with new $100 notes.
- New bills will place the president’s signature where the U.S. treasurer’s has long appeared, next to the Treasury secretary’s, while all existing currency remains valid.
- A federal arts commission on March 19 approved iconography for a 24‑karat gold commemorative coin featuring Trump, and legal questions over images of living presidents on coins have prompted Democratic proposals to bar such depictions.
- The Bureau of Engraving and Printing is preparing note designs and production, and the U.S. Mint is advancing coin planning under Treasury direction.
- It will mark the first time a sitting president’s signature appears on U.S. paper money, breaking a practice dating to the Civil War era that limited bill signatures to the Treasury secretary and the treasurer.