Budget Expert: A $5,000 Dividend on $40 Trillion of Debt? ‘Laughable’
Bret Baier pressed JD Vance on whether the proposed checks would amount to voter bribery and could cost the government about $1.3 trillion.
- On Wednesday, President Donald Trump promised every American adult a $5,000 'Trump Dividend' at the GOP midterm convention in Dallas if Republicans retain control of Congress in November, though the payments would cost more than $1 trillion and require Congressional approval.
- Facing Republican prospects of losing at least one congressional chamber with less than two months until elections, Trump made the pledge despite hitting an all-time low approval rating, centering his hour-and-45-minute speech on himself amid deepening unpopularity.
- Marc Goldwein, senior policy director at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, stated the U.S. running $2 trillion annual deficits and carrying $40 trillion in debt makes the proposal fiscally unsustainable, with the plan costing approximately $1.35 trillion across 270 million eligible adults.
- Fox News reactions proved sharply divided Thursday: anchor Bret Baier challenged Vice President JD Vance on 'bribing voters' charges, while Vance defended the dividend as worker-funded through tariffs; host Rachel Campos-Duffy called it 'creative and brilliant,' though host Lawrence Jones proposed tax cuts instead.
- Trump's previous unfulfilled payment promises—including $5,000 DOGE checks, $2,000 tariff rebates, and a $1,776 warrior dividend for military members—fuel skepticism, as critics immediately labeled Wednesday's pledge a 'bribe' and legal questions persist about implementation and legality.
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Vance Defends Trump’s Promise Of “$5000 Dividend”
FOX HOST BRET BAIER: “I can hear the critics’ heads exploding. They’re saying out loud, I guarantee you, ‘The president is bribing voters to vote for Republicans to take over the House, and then he’s bankrupting the country because the deficit and debt is huge and inflation would come back if this comes into play.’ … The post Vance Defends Trump’s Promise Of “$5000 Dividend” appeared first on Joe.My.God..
Desperate Trump offers over $1 trillion in bribery checks to voters if Republicans win the midterms
Donald Trump took the stage at the Republican Party’s “midterm convention” Wednesday night with a remarkable offer to voters: If Republicans win, he says, the government could send every adult American $5,000 —a promise that could cost taxpayers more than $1 trillion. Trump called it the “Trump Dividend,” tying the proposed cash payments directly to […]
The vice president questioned the scope of the announcement and argued that the so-called dividend could exclude the richest Americans
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