President Trump pushed to have his name printed on the economic stimulus payments the IRS is sending to tens of millions of Americans. Now he’s written a gushing letter to almost 90 million people, with his jagged signature in thick black pen.
The one-page letter, with one side printed in English and the other in Spanish, was required by the coronaviruseconomic package approved by Congress as a record of a deposit from the Treasury Department. The law does not say who should mail the letter.
If the money went to the wrong person, came in the wrong amount or didn’t arrive at all — all scenarios that have befallen taxpayers in recent weeks — the government is giving them proof of its intent. Continue reading.