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      COVID-19 Pandemic Relief Cheques Will Not Be Signed By Donald Trump

      The White House said the cheques will be signed by an official from the US Treasury's Bureau of Fiscal Service and not Donald Trump.

      By - AFP |
      Published -  30 March 2021 3:19 PM IST
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      COVID-19 Pandemic Relief Cheques Will Not Be Signed By Donald Trump

      An image of a cheque bearing the name of former US president Donald Trump is circulating in social media posts which claim that relief cheques issued from March 2021 to help Americans struggling during the pandemic will be signed with Trump's name. The claim is false; the White House said the cheques will be signed by an official from the US Treasury's Bureau of Fiscal Service, breaking with the Trump era's policy of including the president's name on COVID-19 relief cheques.

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      The claim was shared in this Facebook post published on March 15, 2021.

      An image in the post shows a cheque reading "PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP". A news ticker below reads "RELIEF BILL VOTE", while the logo of US TV channel ABC News and text "#WORLDNEWSTONIGHT" is visible in the bottom-right corner.

      "Ummm… So who is current president of America ??? Stimulus cheques in the mail signed by PRESIDENT Donald J Trump," the caption reads.


      A screenshot of the misleading Facebook post as of March 19, 2021.

      The image was also shared on Facebook here and here, and on TikTok here.

      The post circulated after US President Joe Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act into law on March 11, 2021, weeks after he announced the $1.9 trillion package to help families and small businesses struggling with the financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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      The plan includes a third round of Economic Impact Payments of up to $1,400 per eligible person. This follows two previous payments during the pandemic issued under Trump in March and December 2020.

      Trump's name appeared in the memo line of the cheques, as can be seen in these photographs on Getty Images.

      However, under the Biden administration, the cheques will be signed by an official from the US Treasury's Bureau of the Fiscal Service, not by the president.

      White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters on March 9, 2021, that Biden's name would not appear on these relief cheques.

      "We are doing everything in our power to expedite the payments and not delay them, which is why the President's name will not appear on the memo line of this round of stimulus cheques. The cheques will be signed by a career official at the Bureau of Fiscal Service," Psaki said.

      ABC News report

      Furthermore, the screenshot of a cheque bearing Trump's signature circulating on social media has been taken out of context.

      A Google search of "relief bill vote ABC World News Tonight" led AFP to this report by ABC World News Tonight posted on Facebook on March 10, 2021.

      In the video, the same image of a cheque bearing Donald Trump's name that is circulating on social media appears at 0:53.

      A comparison between the misleading image shared on social media (L) and a screenshot from ABC World News Tonight's report (R)

      Narrating the report, ABC News's chief White House correspondent Cecilia Vega explains, "We're not going to see President Biden's signature on those stimulus cheques, like we saw there -- you can see it -- with President Trump."

      The image of the cheque used in the ABC News report matches this photo by Getty Images photographer Chip Somodevilla.

      A screenshot of the Getty Images entry as of March 24, 2021.

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      The Internal Revenue Service said in a media release that it began processing payments on March 12, 2021.

      (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by BOOM staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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      Claim :   Relief cheques issued to help Americans struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic will be signed with Donald Trump's name.
      Claimed By :  Posts on Facebook and TikTok
      Fact Check :  False
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