The Trump administration is dropping plans to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Spectrum News that they are abandoning the plan to honor Tubman, the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad, who helped free approximately 70 slaves.

“We are not at present,” Bessent said when asked about the plan to put the abolitionist on the currency, according to the outlet. He did not explain the decision.

The move comes amid an anti-DEI push by the Trump administration to erase or diminish the contributions of Black people to American society.

Last year, the National Park Service rewrote a webpage on its website that describes the Underground Railroad to reduce the significance of Tubman. They later restored the page after widespread criticism.

The plan to honor Tubman dated back to President Barack Obama’s Treasury Secretary, Jack Lew, in 2016. The initial plan was to have the new bill enter circulation in 2020. In his first term, Trump delayed the redesign until 2026, arguing that they needed time to incorporate new anti-counterfeiting technology into the new currency.

But on the 2016 campaign trail, Trump criticized the decision to put Tubman on the $20 bill, calling it “pure political correctness.”

The White House’s delay of the new Tubman $20 bill this year comes as members of the Trump administration are working closely with MAGA sycophants in Congress to change the law to allow for a new $250 bill featuring Trump’s image to mark America’s 250th birthday.

The Washington Post reported that the Treasury Department has prepared mock-up designs for a new $250 bill featuring Trump’s portrait, despite the 1886 law banning a living person from appearing on U.S. currency. The department reportedly reassigned Patricia Solimene, the now-former director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP), after she raised objections to the proposed bill.

Last week, Bessent and Trump previewed a $100 bill bearing Trump’s signature, months after the Treasury Department announced that, for the first time, a sitting president’s signature would be featured on US currency.

Bessent defended the decision to scrap plans to put Tubman on the $20 bill while making preparations to add Trump to the $250 bill.

“The 250 requires an act of Congress, because you can’t have a living person [on U.S. currency], and it was to commit [sic]– for the 250th anniversary. For us to change an existing bill, whether it’s $1 through $100 takes many years in advance,” Bessent told Spectrum News.