A group of Democratic senators has urged Secretary of State Marco Rubio to put the brakes on a plan to feature President Donald Trump’s face on U.S. passports as part of the U.S. 250th anniversary celebrations.
“We write to express our deep concern regarding the State Department’s reported plans to issue a limited number of specially designed U.S. passports featuring a picture of President Trump to commemorate the 250th anniversary of our nation’s founding. The U.S. passport has never—and should not now—feature an image of a sitting U.S. president,” the group, led by Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon, wrote in a letter to Rubio. “We ask you to halt these plans given the anti-democratic impact this decision will have.”
