Trump's signature to appear on US currency, Treasury says, ending 165-year tradition

US paper currency will bear President Donald Trump’s signature to mark the 250th anniversary of US independence, the Treasury Department said on Thursday, a first for a sitting president, while deleting the Treasurer of the United States’ signature from US money for the first time in 165 years.

The Treasury said in a statement to Reuters that the first US$100 bills with Trump’s signature and that of US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will be printed in June, followed by other bills in subsequent months.

The Treasury’s Bureau of Engraving and Printing is currently still producing notes bearing the signatures of former President Joe Biden’s Treasury secretary, Janet Yellen, and Treasurer Lynn Malerba.

Malerba will be the last of an unbroken line of Treasurers whose signatures had appeared on US federal currency since 1861, when it was first issued by the US government.

Reuters