1. United States
2. Mo.
3. Letter

I am a constituent writing to urge your immediate action to block President Trump's signature from appearing on U.S. currency and to stop the minting of a commemorative gold coin bearing his image for America's 250th anniversary. This is not just inappropriate — it conflicts directly with federal law. Under 31 U.S.C. § 5114, only the Treasurer and Treasury Secretary may sign U.S. currency — not the President. Under 31 U.S.C. § 5112, coins bearing the image of any living president are explicitly prohibited. The administration is using a narrow legal workaround — the Treasury Secretary's discretionary authority over commemorative coins — to bypass this prohibition. The approval came from a Commission of Fine Arts that Trump gutted and packed with political loyalists. This is not a legitimate independent process. For over 150 years, placing a sitting president's face on American currency has been recognized as the behavior of monarchies and dictatorships. Democratic senators have already introduced legislation to block the Trump dollar coin. I urge you to support that effort and stand up for the democratic norms and legal guardrails that protect our national symbols from political self-promotion. America's 250th anniversary belongs to all Americans — not to any one president.