Yellen Rallies Her Team Amid Drive to Send $1,400 Checks in Days

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen braced the agency’s 84,000 workers for long hours ahead as they work to push $1,400 in checks and direct bank deposits to millions of Americans, starting this weekend.

In an email to staff sent Thursday, Yellen thanked the team for “late nights” and “tough calls” as they worked “in the furnace of a crisis.” The note, obtained by Bloomberg News, was circulated just over an hour after President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion pandemic-relief bill into law.

The new law provides $1,400 to low- and middle-income families, rental assistance, additional child-tax credits and new health-insurance ...