Trump Loves Idea of Sending Taxpayers Checks Funded by DOGE Savings

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The proposal was first floated by businessman James Fishback, who called it a โ€˜DOGE dividend.โ€™

President Donald Trump said on Feb. 19 that he loves the idea of his administration returning 20 percent of the savings identified by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to U.S. citizens.

โ€œI love it,โ€ Trump said on Wednesday. โ€œI think itโ€™s great idea. It could be a lot.โ€

โ€œIt could also give the taxpayer incentive to go out and report things,โ€ the president added.

Trump also said he would consider using another 20 percent of the savings to pay down the federal governmentโ€™s debt. The comments came during a summit hosted by Saudi Arabiaโ€™s sovereign wealth fund in Miami, Florida, with global financiers and tech leaders.

โ€œThereโ€™s even under consideration a new concept, where we give 20 percent of the DOGE savings to American citizens, and 20 percent goes to paying down debt,โ€ Trump said.

Businessman James Fishback originally made the proposal on Feb. 18 in a post on the social platform X, calling it a โ€œDOGE dividend.โ€

โ€œPresident Trump and @ElonMusk should announce a โ€˜DOGE Dividendโ€™โ€”a tax refund check sent to every taxpayer, funded exclusively with a portion of the total savings delivered by DOGE,โ€ Fishback, the CEO of Azoria Partners investment firm, wrote.

DOGE leader Elon Musk said he would discuss the idea with Trump, responding to Fishback in an X post, โ€œWill check with the president.โ€

According to Fishbackโ€™s analysis, if DOGE succeeded in the significant task of cutting federal spending by $2 trillion, 20 percent, or $400 billion, returned to American taxpayers would be roughly $5,000 for each of the countryโ€™s 79 million tax-paying households.

Preston Brashers, a tax policy research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, celebrated DOGEโ€™s efforts but called the proposal a โ€œbad idea.โ€

โ€œThe dividend we get from slashing spending is that it brings inflation into check. But if the government sends out stimmy checks, inflation will come back with a vengeance,โ€ Brashers wrote in a post on X.

Fishback said in his proposal that the DOGE dividend checks would not be inflationary because โ€œtax-paying households are more likely to save (not spend) a transfer payment like the DOGE Dividend as consumption is a lower share of their income.โ€

Byย Jacob Burg

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