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Stimulus Checks Might Be Delayed Because Trump Wants His Name Printed On Them; a 93-Year-Old Woman Wants Beer, Gets Beer; and Fauci Warns that Safety Can’t Be Guaranteed During November Election Polls.
Some Americans have already gotten stimulus payments through direct deposit, while many others will be receiving their payments in the form of a check. However, in an unprecedented move, President Trump wants his name to appear on those checks, which might delay how quickly they’ll be sent out.
On Monday, the Treasury Department approved a decision. Trump’s name will appear in the memo section of those checks, and engineers will now need to program that ability in. This will take time. They’ll need to test the system, which could result in a delay in the first batch of checks sent out.
When questioned by the Washington Post, the Treasury Department insisted that the checks “are scheduled to go out on time and exactly as planned–there is absolutely no delay whatsoever.”
This will be the first time in history that a President’s name has appeared on a check sent out from the IRS.
The national president of the IRS’s Professional Managers Association, Chad Hooper, spoke with the Washington Post, making it clear that he was appalled by this move.
“In this time of need for additional resources, anything that takes our focus from getting those checks out the door and hampers the equitable, fair administration of the tax code is not something we can support,” he said.
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After an elderly woman started trending around the world for her hilarious “I NEED MORE BEER” sign, her wish has been more than granted.
Olive Veronesi was getting tired of being cooped up in her Seminole, Pennsylvania home. However, she quickly found a way to remedy her boredom.
And how did she do it? By holding up a sign to her window that said she needed more beer while holding up what is presumably an empty can of Coors Light.
Coors Light received her message loud and clear. They gifted Olive with a few cases that contained 150 cans of beer. When the delivery arrived, she immediately knocked one back.
Olive spoke with KDKA-TV about her dilemma, saying, “I was on my last 12 cans. I have a beer every night! You know what? Beer has vitamins in it. It’s good for you, as long as you don’t overdo it.”
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The head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, recently said in an interview that he “can’t guarantee” that physically voting during the November election will be safe.
In the interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, he said, “I hope so, Jake. I can’t guarantee it. There is always the possibility as we get into next fall and the beginning of early winter that we could see a rebound.”
This information comes amid President Trump speaking out unfavorably against mail-in ballots. Last week he said of mail-in voting, “Horrible. It’s corrupt.”
“It shouldn’t be mail-in voting,” said Trump. “It should be: you go to a booth and you proudly display yourself. You don’t send it in the mail where people can pick up. All sorts of bad things can happen by the time it gets in and is tabulated.”
However, Patrick Ruffini, a partner at a Republican polling firm, says that mail-in voting doesn’t favor any particular party. The idea of mail-in voting is also starting to gain widespread approval. It is already widely used by the US military.
Ruffini told NPR that there “hasn’t been strong evidence that a wholesale shift to voting by mail does cause a state to move more democratic or more republican.”
Michael McDonald, a political scientist at the University of Florida, told NPR that “The real outstanding question is whether or not we’re going to have an election system that can deliver for the voters and whether or not we’re going to be able to manage everybody being able to vote in November.”
