The administration is, absurdly, wedging Trump’s signature into the memo line of the checks.
. The Treasury Department finalized the decision Monday night and, the Washington Post reports, ordered the Internal Revenue Service to add Trump’s signature to the some 70 million paper checks scheduled to be sent to Americans over the next weeks and months. The move is contrary to established protocol and procedure at the IRS, which aims to avoid at all costs the politicization of the tax system. Not anymore.
Many Americans will receive their individual $1,200 payment as a direct deposit, forgoing the need for a paper check, but tens of millions of others, particularly those with low incomes, will now get an old fashioned paper check emblazoned with “President Donald J. Trump.” Making the whole thing that much more absurd is that Trump’s name will be purely ornamental because he’s not authorized to sign Treasury disbursements.
“The decision to have the paper checks bear Trump’s name, in the works for weeks, according to a Treasury official, was announced early Tuesday to the IRS’s information technology team,” the Washington Post reports. “The team, working from home, is now racing to implement a programming change that two senior IRS officials said will probably lead to a delay in issuing the first batch of paper checks.
The Treasury is expected to issue roughly five million paper checks each week—for up to 20 weeks— beginning the first week of May.
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