Biden's signature will not be on relief checks
President Joe Biden will not be attaching his signature to the $1,400 relief checks that are expected to be mailed soon — a break with his predecessor who last year had “President Donald J. Trump” printed on the economic impact payments approved by Congress.
The next round of paper checks will bear the signature of a career official at the Treasury Department’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said at a Tuesday briefing.
House Democratic leaders said Tuesday that they have the votes to give final congressional approval to Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill. Passage has not been in serious question, but the leaders’ confidence underscored the unity Democrats have shown during the effort.
Psaki said the goal was to get the payments out quickly instead of branding them as coming from Biden.
“This is not about him, this is about the American people getting relief,” Psaki said.
Trump insisted last April after more than $2 trillion in coronavirus aid was approved that his name be on the $1,200 relief checks — a first for any president.
