Donald Trump pledged Wednesday to send every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections, an extraordinary gambit to reverse his party’s sagging fortunes in November.
The dubious promise would likely cost more than $1 trillion and require congressional approval, and would further exacerbate the country’s nearly $1.8 trillion annual budget deficit and concerns about inflation.
Sure, go right ahead and add something like $1.6T to the national debt. Fuck it - why not!
it would be more like another $10 trillion after tax cuts and credits for the wealthy that would absolutely piggyback on any republicant legislation giving a mere $5000 to every ‘us adult’… and the new donnie dollars will require a birth certificate, fingerprints, facial scan, social logins, and dna sample to
collectapply for.If my morning math is mathing it would be 150 billion (based on population of 300 million–probably less adults than that).
I did ~330m x $1000 = ~$330b x 5 = $1.65t
e: Mind you, it’s 9:30pm here and I’m exhausted looking after a newborn, so I may be missing something. 😅
The article actually said $1T. But it IS 9:30pm. I get it.
It is not, in fact, mathing.