How is it legal for the US President&#39;s name to appear on aid checks?
<p>Apparently, (soon-former) US President Donald Trump's name <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/us/politics/stimulus-check-trump-signature.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">appeared</a> on the stimulus checks sent out last year.</p>
<p>I guess this is a late question to ask, but - how can this be legal? It makes it appears as though it is a personal gesture by Trump rather than a federal state action, which if anything is credited to the congress. Obviously it has a significant (and perhaps huge) effect on people's personal support for Trump as a candidate if &quot;he sent them checks&quot;.</p>
<p>Is this kind of practice really not forbidden by some law or election-related regulation?</p>

<p>It is common place for major official actions, not just checks but also, for example, governmental buildings, to note the politicians who implemented law or enacted them at the time. This practice is not forbidden by any law or election-related regulation.</p>
<p>There is a strong political norm as a matter of political etiquette that checks from the government be signed by a senior official in the Treasury department or a state and local equivalent, such as the Secretary of Treasury, the Comptroller of the Currency, or the Director of the Internal Revenue Service, rather than the President, Governor, or Mayor. But no one would have legal standing to challenge a violation of this political norm in court, because a person receiving a check naming the President as the signer has not suffered an actual injury.</p>

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