A freshman GOP congressman from Texas needs to pay homage to President Trump — by placing his face on the $100 invoice as soon as his second time period wraps up.
Rep. Brandon Gill launched the Golden Age Act of 2025 on Monday, a proposal that might require each new $100 invoice to showcase Trump’s mug in lieu of Founding Father Benjamin Franklin, who’s now so synonymous with the payments that they’re nicknamed “Benjamins.”
“President Trump could be enjoying his golden years golfing and spending time with his family,” stated Gill, 31, who was first elected to Congress final 12 months, in a press release.
“Instead, he took a bullet for this country and is now working overtime to secure our border, fix our uneven trade relationship with the rest of the world, make America energy independent again, and put America first by ending useless foreign aid,” Gill stated.
However the proposed laws may be very prone to be useless on arrival within the Senate because of a Democratic filibuster, which requires 60 votes to beat it.
The invoice marks Gill’s third to this point into his tenure.
The invoice calls on the Treasury Division to launch a brand new design for the $100 invoice by the top of 2026 and mandates that each one $100 notes function Trump’s face by the top of 2028.
Trump, 78, famously loves to attract comparisons between himself and iconic figures in US historical past.
“I would say I’m far superior to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln,” Trump instructed reporters within the Oval Workplace with a useless critical look on his face Friday earlier than smirking.
“Look, you know I’m only kidding, right?” he rapidly clarified. “Because when I say that, you know the fake news is going to go wild. … But you never know.”
Different Republican lawmakers have sought to flatter Trump previously with related items of laws. In January, for instance, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) launched a invoice to place Trump’s face on Mount Rushmore.
Politicians throughout the aisle have made related claims about key figures of their get together as effectively.
Final 12 months, former Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) instructed that former President Joe Biden deserved a spot on Mount Rushmore after enraging him over her position in efforts to jettison him because the Democrats’ 2024 standard-bearer.
The $100 invoice was redesigned in 2010 with a blue ribbon woven close to the middle of the be aware supposed to make it simpler to establish fraud — but it surely saved Franklin’s face out entrance.
Alongside the $10 invoice, which options Alexander Hamilton, the $100 invoice is one in all two demoninations nonetheless being printed that doesn’t showcase a US president.
