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Posted: 2020-04-15T01:04:40Z | Updated: 2020-04-15T17:46:40Z

President Donald Trump s name will be printed on the economic stimulus checks that will be distributed by the Internal Revenue Service to individuals to help mitigate losses caused by the coronavirus pandemic, The Washington Post reported Tuesday .

The addition, which was ordered by the Treasury Department, is expected to delay the delivery of paper checks by several days, according to the Post, which cited unnamed senior agency officials. The phrase President Donald J. Trump will be printed in a memo line on the left side of the checks (most will total $1,200 for individuals), below a line that says Economic Impact Payment.

After the IRS adjusts its printing technology for this addition, tens of millions of Americans are expected to receive these checks in the mail in the coming weeks.

NBC News also confirmed the report Tuesday night.

In response to the reports, the Treasury said in a statement Wednesday that the stimulus checks are scheduled to go out with no delay.

Economic Impact Payment checks are scheduled to go out on time and exactly as planned there is no delay whatsoever, the Treasury said in its statement, as reported by The Associated Press. In fact, we expect the first checks to be in the mail early next week, which is well in advance of when the first checks went out in 2008 and well in advance of initial estimates.