"The buck stopped here."

Patricia "Patty" Solimene, the first female director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, which prints the nation's currency, writing in a goodbye email to colleagues after being abruptly reassigned, in what four current and former employees say followed her repeated refusals to design a $250 bill featuring President Donald Trump's portrait. Federal law has prohibited living people from appearing on U.S. currency since 1866, and Solimene, a 24-year Army veteran, had told Trump administration officials the project was unauthorized and that new currency typically takes six to eight years to produce. The political appointee who pressed her on the $250 bill has since been named acting director of the bureau she led. (Washington Post)