Trump has promised every adult American $5,000 if Republicans retain control of both houses of Congress. Paying $5,000 to roughly 240 million adults would cost approximately $1.2 trillion and require Congressional approval. Even his enabling Republicans would shy away.
But before you spend it, remember, some of you fell for similar broken promises.
The $5,000 checks he promised as a DOGE dividendnever arrived. Neither did the $2,000 tariff-dividend checks he promised.
Consider Trump University. Many hopeful folks paid thousands of dollars to learn the secret to Trump’s real-estate strategies (but not to his strategies for the six projects he filed into bankruptcy). With a criminal fraud suit hanging over his head, he settled by paying Trump University customers $25 million.
Then there’s Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill that gave America’s wealthiest a $4.5 billion tax cut. Trump promised middle- and low-income earners that they would gain “at least $13,000 a year” from the bill. Of course they didn’t. His promise was based on his heavily inflated, i.e., false, projections for economic growth. Indeed, Trump and his Republicans had already fooled us five times, when they promised their tax cuts would generate enough economic growth to cover tax revenues lost to tax cuts for the wealthy. They never did.
Now Trump wants to gull voters into believing another extraordinary financial promise – or more accurately a bribe: Elect Republicans and you’ll get $5,000. It doesn’t bother him that many of the checks will go to Democrats, including Democratic candidates for Congress and state governments. It doesn’t bother him because he knows he’ll never send out any checks.
So before voting on the expectation that Donald Trump is going to send you $5,000, ask yourself one question: Where are the checks from his last promises.
Perhaps more importantly is the question: do you want to keep the Republicans in Congress who enabled his dismantling of our government?
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