# The next stimulus - will Trump sign the checks? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 23, 2020, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-stimulus-will-trump-sign-the-checks/916127 "2020-07-23T15:24:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-stimulus-will-trump-sign-the-checks/916127/1 "2020-07-23T15:24:24Z")
I think that the Dems would be crazy to allow it to happen again, but I don’t know if they have the power (or the stomach) for putting language in the bill that says that the Treasury Secretary must sign the checks. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-stimulus-will-trump-sign-the-checks/916127/2 "2020-07-23T17:28:20Z")
Since this is more a political question than about Covid, let’s move it to Politics and Elections. Colibri QZ Moderator ---
**Author:** ![SoToasty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sotoasty/32/2803_2.png) [@SoToasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoToasty)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-stimulus-will-trump-sign-the-checks/916127/3 "2020-07-23T18:54:31Z")
I think most likely he will sign the checks. I doubt the democrats will try to add something to the bill to stop it, as it might get hung up in the senate. I would like to ask if someone at the treasury dept, can loose the signature stamp and make him actually sign them all. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-stimulus-will-trump-sign-the-checks/916127/4 "2020-07-23T18:58:46Z")
I dont care, as long as I get the check. They can have Bozo the Clown sign the checks… oh wait… they did. 😝 ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-stimulus-will-trump-sign-the-checks/916127/5 "2020-07-23T18:59:17Z")
I don’t think the Dems should think much of it. When Trump pulled this stunt last time, it didn’t do him any favors in the polls. ---
**Author:** ![SingleMalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/singlemalt/32/3961_2.png) [@SingleMalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SingleMalt)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-stimulus-will-trump-sign-the-checks/916127/6 "2020-07-23T19:06:44Z")
Trump isn’t on the account, and doesn’t have the authority to sign the checks. Theoretically, he could be given the authority, but this hasn’t happened to my knowledge. That’s why his name was printed in the memo field on the last stimulus check. “Treasury Directive 16-23 [states](https://www.treasury.gov/about/role-of-treasury/orders-directives/Pages/td16-23.aspx) that the Chief Disbursing Officer, or a disbursing officer under her “control and supervision” to whom she has delegated her power, signs ‘checks drawn against all accounts of the Secretary of the Treasury.’” Above quote from here: > **[Trump signing coronavirus checks is nonsensical and probably illegal - CREW |...](https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/trump-signing-coronavirus-checks-is-nonsensical-and-probably-illegal/)** > > President Trump reportedly wants his signature to appear on checks sent to Americans as part of the largest stimulus package in US history. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-stimulus-will-trump-sign-the-checks/916127/7 "2020-07-24T02:00:01Z")
Well, whatever. That first $1200 certainly bought him MY vote, and if he gives me another $1200 I’ll vote for him twice! If he gives me another $1200 in each of August, September, October and early enough in November, I’ll vote for him five times. If he promises me another $1200 for each month from December through next summer at least, I’ll vote again for him for each of those months. Once he’s gotten all those votes from me, will he pay up after the election is over? I trust that boy! He’s the same color as money! (Cite: That last quip stolen from the movie Li’l Abner, spoken by Bullmoose about Evil-Eye Fleegle.) ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-stimulus-will-trump-sign-the-checks/916127/8 "2020-07-24T02:53:39Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > I dont care, as long as I get the check. They can have Bozo the Clown sign the checks… oh wait… they did. 😝 This. In fact, last time I got my stimulus payment directly deposited, so there was no paper check. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-stimulus-will-trump-sign-the-checks/916127/9 "2020-07-24T03:11:21Z")
Same here. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-stimulus-will-trump-sign-the-checks/916127/10 "2020-07-24T19:44:56Z")
I got a paper check (for $2400 presumably because my wife and I file joint returns and it was made out to both of us) and Trump didn’t sign it, although his name was printed on it somewhere. I wanted to endorse it to Biden for President, but apparently you can’t make a campaign donation that way. Still I will send Biden that amount. The whole thing of sending us a check is really a waste. We don’t need the money, we wouldn’t normally spend it in the US and we have not actually paid US tax in decades. The foreign tax credit wipes out any US taxes owed by a factor of well over 2. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-stimulus-will-trump-sign-the-checks/916127/11 "2020-07-24T23:08:17Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > If he promises me another $1200 for each month from December through next summer at least, I’ll vote again for him for each of those months. Once he’s gotten all those votes from me, will he pay up after the election is over? I trust that boy! He’s the same color as money! At that point, he’ll be well on his way to buying a third term.