A spokesperson denied adding his name would cause any delay.
The latest news and biggest developments to keep you informed about the deadly pandemic.’s name will appear on the paper stimulus checks expected to start being issued via mail “early next week,” a Treasury Department spokeswoman confirmed to ABC News Wednesday, while denying adding his name would delay checks from going out.
The checks will be signed by an official from the Bureau of the Fiscal Services, the division of the Treasury Department that prints the checks.that adding"President Donald J. Trump" to the checks -- under a line that says"Economic Impact Payment" -- will slow the pace of the disbursements, the Treasury spokeswoman told ABC News, “Economic Impact Payment checks are scheduled to go out on time and exactly as planned—there is absolutely no delay whatsoever.
“Delaying direct payments to vulnerable families just to print his name on the check is another shameful example of President Trump’s catastrophic failure to treat this crisis with the urgency it demands,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a statement responding to news reports. “The problem here is that it's not his money, it's the country's money. It's not the authority of the president of United States doing this, but an act of Congress signed by the president that's doing it,” he said.
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