One Founders pledge their "lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor" to a democratic republic, a "government of laws and not of men." Enough flummery, dupery and nincompoopery from DJT and his cat's laws. From The Hill:
Senate Democrats introduce bill to block Trump from putting face on dollar coin
Sens. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) introduced legislation Tuesday to prevent President Trump or any sitting or living former president from being featured on U.S. currency, a bill that would thwart the U.S. Treasury’s plan to issue a commemorative $1 coin with Trump’s image on it.
The bill, titled the Change Corruption Act, is cosponsored by Democratic Sens. Ron Wyden (Ore.) and Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) and states: “No United States currency may feature the likeness of a living or sitting President.”
The bill’s authors note the historical precedent of the United States not featuring a living or sitting president on a circulating coin.
The U.S. Mint may announce a decision as soon as this week on issuing a Trump coin to coincide with the nation’s 250th birthday.
“President Trump’s self-celebrating maneuvers are authoritarian actions worthy of dictators like North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, not the United States of America,” Merkely said in a statement.
We must reject his efforts to dismantle our ‘We, The People’ republic and replace it with a strongman state by demanding strong accountability to prevent further abuse of taxpayer dollars,” he said.
A draft rendering of the Trump coin circulated by the Treasury Department depicts Trump’s profile superimposed over the motto: “Liberty.”
Cortez Masto said in a statement that “while monarchs put their faces on coins, America has never had and never will have a king.”
“Our legislation would codify this country’s long-standing tradition of not putting living presidents on American coins. Congress must pass it without delay,” she said.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) is unlikely to schedule the bill for a vote on the Senate floor anytime soon.
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