{"id":2404163,"date":"2025-02-19T10:25:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T15:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/musk-teases-doge-dividend-checks-that-could-reach-5000-per-household-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-02-19T10:27:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T15:27:44","slug":"musk-teases-doge-dividend-checks-that-could-reach-5000-per-household-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/musk-teases-doge-dividend-checks-that-could-reach-5000-per-household-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk teases \u2018DOGE Dividend\u2019 checks that could reach $5,000 per household &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmusk-teases-doge-dividend-checks-that-could-reach-5000-per-household-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2404163&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Elon Musk has proposed \u200bteh idea \u200cof \u2063distributing &#8220;DOGE Dividend&#8221; checks,\u2062 possibly amounting to $5,000 per household, to millions of Americans. This initiative,associated with the department of Government Efficiency,could be realized next\u200b summer if certain budget cuts are approved. Musk intends to coordinate with President Trump to\u2064 evaluate\u2063 the feasibility of this plan, which\u200c would \u2064provide a 20% refund to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-wave-of-stimulus-checks-coming-in-multiple-states\/\" title=\"New Wave of ... Coming in Multiple States\">taxpayers based<\/a>\u2062 on savings that the agency\u200d estimates \u2063from expenditure reductions. The concept was\u200b initially shared by\u200c James Fishback, CEO of Azoria\u200c Partners, and suggests \u200cthat \u2063the checks \u200bwould serve \u200cas refunds \u200crather than typical stimulus\u200c payments. \u2062Approximately 79 million eligible households that pay federal income\u2062 tax could receive these checks, dependent on meaningful spending\u200c cuts\u2014Musk previously cited\u200c a \u200dgoal of\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-72-days-of-fury-top-time-interview-takeaways-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Trump\u2019s \u201872 days of fury\u2019: Top Time interview takeaways - Washington Examiner\">cutting  trillion<\/a>. However,the plan would need congressional \u200dapproval and\u2064 may face political opposition,especially given \u200crecent \u2063government layoffs and ongoing\u2062 protests. Unlike earlier stimulus checks, this\u200b initiative is said to be non-inflationary, \u2064as it \u200brelies on budgetary \u200bsavings.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Musk teases &lsquo;DOGE Dividend&rsquo; checks that could reach $5,000 per household<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1997778\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Trump administration\">Trump administration<\/a> could be sending out $5,000 checks to millions of people next summer if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/elon-musk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Elon Musk\">Elon Musk<\/a> and the Department of Government Efficiency have their way. <\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1891967592048611532?s=46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"posted\">posted<\/a> on X that he &ldquo;will check with the president&rdquo; on what proponents call a DOGE Dividend, which would be a 20% refund of money that the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">quasi-government agency saves taxpayers<\/a> through spending cuts. <\/p>\n<p>Azoria Partners CEO James Fishback floated the proposal on Tuesday, issuing a four-page <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1PTossggcz4_xV82LSv1DE9knYuPq-MG6\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"letter\">letter<\/a> with details that could include stimulus-style checks sent to nearly 80 million households.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Will check with the President<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1891967592048611532?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;President Trump and Elon Musk should announce a &lsquo;DOGE Dividend&rsquo;&mdash;a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-associate-shuffled-money-between-joe-biden-hunter-biden-accounts-president-potential-target-of-fbi-investigation-expert-says\/\" title=\"Report: Associate Shuffled Money Between Joe Biden, Hunter Biden Accounts; President Potential Target Of FBI Investigation, Expert Says\">tax refund check<\/a> sent to every taxpayer, funded exclusively with a portion of the total savings delivered by DOGE,&rdquo; he wrote. <\/p>\n<p>Fishback pitches the idea as a refund check rather than a stimulus since the money would only be a portion of spending cuts rooted out by Musk and DOGE. At least 1,127 government contracts have been canceled so far, DOGE claims, saving $55 billion to date.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few catches, however. <\/p>\n<p>One is that the checks would not be sent until July 2026, when DOGE is scheduled to finish its work. Another is that the checks would only go to households that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/more-than-50-of-u-s-households-paid-no-federal-income-taxes-in-2021\/\" title=\"More Than 50% of U.S. ... Paid No Federal Income Taxes in 2021\">paid federal income tax<\/a>, which Fishback says will be an incentive for people who are not working to enter the labor force this year. <\/p>\n<p>There are roughly 79 million households that fit the description, and each of them could receive a check of up to $5,000 check. <\/p>\n<p>Another wrinkle in the idea is that it would depend on how much spending is actually cut. Musk touted cutting $2 trillion while campaigning with President Donald Trump last year, and the $5,000 figure would be contingent on reaching that astonishing figure. If DOGE cuts less, the checks would be smaller. <\/p>\n<p>The plan would also likely need approval from Congress, though Republican lawmakers might be motivated to get behind sending out big checks a few months before the midterm elections. Trump has not weighed in on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Several rounds of stimulus checks went out under both Trump and President Joe Biden during the pandemic, a controversial move that got a lot of blame for the rampant inflation still plaguing the country. <\/p>\n<p>Per Fishback, this plan would not be inflationary since it would depend on massive spending cuts, and taxpaying households are more likely to invest their money or pay down debt than immediately spend it.<\/p>\n<p>Still, if the idea moves forward, it is sure to face pushback, as have most of Trump and Musk&rsquo;s moves over the last month. Thousands of people have been laid off or fired throughout the federal government, and Democrats are staging protests almost daily outside various agencies or on the National Mall.<\/p>\n<p>Trump famously put his name on two stimulus checks in 2020,&nbsp;though it wasn&rsquo;t enough to see him win reelection that year. Biden did not put his name on checks that went out under his administration, a move he later regretted and described as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3257328\/joe-biden-stupid-covid-checks-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"stupid\">stupid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the early days of the pandemic, roughly 70 million people received $1,200 checks with &ldquo;President Donald J. Trump&rdquo; in the bottom-left corner, a factor some Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3190277\/detroit-democrats-harris-clinton-michigan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"worried\">worried<\/a> could weigh against them in last year&rsquo;s election. <\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Examiner <\/em>has reached out to the White House seeking comment. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1997778\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1997778\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musk hints at $5,000 &#8216;DOGE Dividend&#8217; checks for households<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2635,"featured_media":2404164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Elon-Musk-DOGE-Dividend.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[12577,50663,36435,50664,4250],"class_list":["post-2404163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-doge-dividend","tag-financial-news","tag-household-income","tag-musk"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Elon-Musk-DOGE-Dividend.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2635"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2404163"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2404167,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404163\/revisions\/2404167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2404164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2404163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2404163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2404163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}