New documents showed how the IRS panicked after the Trump administration sought to put former President Donald Trump’s signature on COVID-19 stimulus checks.
In March 2020, Congress passed the $2.2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, providing $1,200 stimulus checks to roughly 80 million taxpayers. Chaos ensued when an order from Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin asked that Trump’s name be added to the checks.
While criticized by many Democratic figures, new documents obtained through a Bloomberg Freedom of Information Act request found that the IRS internally panicked over the order, frantically trying to figure out whether or not Trump’s request would violate any laws.
Given the three-week deadline to send out the first round, IRS personnel scrambled for legal guidance to figure out whether the move was legal. The 2020 checks were the first time in…
