Trump’s name will be on stimulus checks—after he denied wanting his name on stimulus checks – By Saleha Mohsin, Laura Davison, and Bloomberg (Fortune) / April 14 2020
President Donald Trump’s signature will appear on the $1,200 checks being mailed to low- and middle-income households in the coming weeks, according to two officials familiar with the decision.
Typically, a civil servant’s signature—the disbursing officer for the payment center—would appear on regular government benefit checks or one-time economic stimulus payments.
At a press briefing on April 3, Trump denied wanting to have his name appear on the mailed payments.
“Do I want to sign them? No,” he said, but called the plan to send more than $292 million to American households a “Trump administration initiative.”
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