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.
Sorry, I’m apparently unfamiliar with how democracy works. You are allowed to pay people to vote for you?
I guess technically he’s just running on a “give every American adult 5k” platform ? Of course I wouldn’t put it past him to try to only give them to GOP voters
Yeah, democracy, according to the Americans . They also allow their “leader” to make “executive” decisions like a dictator 😆.
If you convince enough wealthy people apparently “democracy” means you can just do whatever you feel like.
How’s the national debt and stagflation, Don?
Take your $5k and shove it up your ass. Tossing us crumbs to distract us from your total disaster of a presidency.
What an economic moron.
The real economic morons are the ones who are excited that they are getting $5k if the repubs stay in congress.
And this. $5k means nothing with stagflation and worsening conditions for workers, no plan to address climate change, massive economic inequality, out of control healthcare costs, ballooning deficit due to insane, needless military spending, disgusting fascism, blatant corruption. etc.
$5k is like two months rent for some people. Okay, what then? Back to the same old usual shit.
And that all assumes a complete change of heart from the GOP that hasn’t paid those doge checks or tarriff refunds.
They won’t fucking get 5k
Anyone get their Tariff refund?
Anyone get their DOGE check?
Any soldier’s families get their death benefit payout being killed in trump’s not-war against Iran?
How about the time he said “Food for everyone!” at a Miami restaruant, then walked out without paying the bill?
Well he has a great reputation for paying people.
Where are my DOGE checks?!
The same place the rest of his promises are at.
What are you talking about? He loves to pay people… with other people’s money
Let’s print $1T dollars, meanwhile my assets get a boost from the inflation!
Just like he promised no new wars.
Antifa hasn’t paid me a cent, yet. I’m not trusting this guy.
Also, for a bribe to work, you need to pay first.
Where the hell is my $2000 DOGE check? I’m starting to thing this guy is full of shit and not just in his diaper
At this point, he’d just be giving back 5000 of the dollars he’s taken from everybody this term.
Buying the presidency seems so american, /s. Good news though, if he is desperately trying to give money away you know his election toppling plans are not very good. Be ready america and watch those polls with your video phones come election night.
He won’t do it.
But good grief think how fucked we are that $5K is an amount that makes people salivate.
Sure, go right ahead and add something like $1.6T to the national debt. Fuck it - why not!
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.
its just another outright lie as an attempted bandaid on a bleeding party. everyone with a lick of sense knows its a lie even if none of his sycophants dont
He won’t.
If they win they’ll pay in some worthless crypto. Mark my words.
They won’t even bother. Did you get your DOGE money? Or Tariffs refunds?
I’d rather have pedo Trump and his circus out of power than an extra $5k.
