Instead, the checks will be signed by a career official at the Bureau of Fiscal Service, which is working with the IRS to deliver the money.
“It’s really unusual to have an individual president’s name on a check,” said Amy Hanauer, executive director at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a non-partisan tax policy organization.
“Throughout U.S. history, it’s not been the case and it’s not been the way that it’s done,” she said.