President Donald Trump is staring down an electoral disaster, so he’s turning to his favorite party trick: bribery! During the first night of his bizarre Republican midterm convention, Trump promised to send every single adult U.S. citizen a $5,000 check if his party holds onto Congress. This last-ditch attempt seemed to be an act of desperation — much like the midterm convention itself.
To be clear, the president doesn’t have the authority to send out such payments without congressional authorization. And Congress would never approve such a voter bribe, which would cost hundreds of billions of dollars, if not more than $1 trillion.
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But Trump hopes you don’t know that. He also hopes you don’t remember the many times he’s promised to send Americans direct payments with zero follow-up. Just last November, Trump posted on Truth Social that tariff revenue had made America rich.
“A dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone,” Trump wrote.
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The money never materialized.
The White House insisted Trump would make the latest promise of checks happen. “President Trump has consistently proven his doubters wrong, drawing a clear contrast with the Democrats’ record of historic inflation, unfettered illegal immigration, skyrocketing crime, and weakness on the world stage,” White House spokesperson Davis Ingle said Thursday.
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