Fox News Spots Awkward Problem With Trump’s $5,000 Midterm Promise

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President Trump told a GOP midterm convention that if Republicans keep control of the House and Senate, he will issue a $5,000 dividend to every adult American citizen, attributing the largesse to unspecified economic success and requiring only that the money be spent domestically. Fox News's own Jacqui Heinrich noted this is not the first such promise: Trump previously pledged $2,000 tariff rebates that have not materialized amid court challenges, and earlier floated $5,000 checks funded by DOGE's claimed savings, which also never appeared.

Critics online did the arithmetic: roughly 269 million American adults times $5,000 comes to about $1.35 trillion, a sum reporters noted has no identified funding source. Others called the pledge a straightforward attempt to buy votes ahead of the election.

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By my count this is the third round of checks promised and the zeroth round delivered. When a man owes you two favors already and offers a third to keep his job, you don't count the new one as money. You count it as talk, and talk's the one thing there's never been a shortage of.

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