Posted on 02/20/2025 9:48:02 AM PST by Signalman
A “DOGE Dividend” could be coming to a mailbox near you, President Donald Trump has announced.
Savings resulting from work by the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency should be, at least in part, returned back to taxpayers in the form of direct financial payments, Trump said aboard Air Force One on Wednesday. His answer came while responding to a similar proposal by Elon Musk, who said an equal part of the savings should go toward paying down the national debt.
“I love it,” President Trump said about Musk’s proposal. “A twenty percent dividend, so to speak, for the money that we’re saving by going after the waste, fraud, and abuse.”
Challenged about how much that might mean per taxpayer, Trump sounded an aggressive note.
“Could be a lot. I mean, if it’s twenty percent, we could give back a lot of money to the taxpayer,” he added, saying it would “give an incentive for the taxpayer to go out and report things to use where we can save money.”
To cap the one-month anniversary of the Trump administration, DOGE announced that it has already saved taxpayers a stunning $55 billion, according to The Hill. Much of those savings were achieved by canceling or renegotiating leases and contracts, selling assets, canceling grants, finding regulatory savings, making programmatic changes to the government, and reducing the workforce.
Shuttering the U.S. Agency for International Development saved about $6.5 billion alone, Musk stated, while layoffs at the U.S. Department of Education achieved $502 million in savings. As evidence, DOGE has posted a “wall of receipts” on its website where visitors may view all savings to date; the evidence has also been shown by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt during several press briefings.
President Trump established DOGE on his first day in office to realize savings through the reduction of waste, fraud, and abuse, a legitimate problem in the federal bureaucracy that both Democrats and Republicans agree can be improved. However, the speed and scope of DOGE’s cuts have caused many Democrats to protest what they claim are heavy-handed tactics that will ultimately backfire on the Trump administration as it seeks to carry out basic government functions.
However, without a lever of power in Washington, the opposition party is largely powerless to stop Trump and Musk from running roughshod over agencies which they allege haven’t been audited in years. On Thursday the White House confirmed that 6,000 new agents at the Internal Revenue Service would be laid off, building on GOP efforts to stifle its ability to harass Americans during tax season.
The last round of direct government payments to Americans was under President Trump’s first term when approximately $814 billion in pandemic assistance was doled out in the form of checks. Last week the IRS touted a program to make whole a small subset of Americans who did not receive their $1,400 lifeline nearly five years ago, saying that about one million Americans who did not claim the Recovery Rebate Credit on their 2021 taxes are eligible.
«If DOGE saves $100 billion, 20% of that is $20B. Divvying it up evenly gives us...”
DOGE is going to save a lot more than $100B.
It is not going to be “evenly” distributed.
It will be a tax deduction.
I don’t think that move will make America better at all. The money given to citizens will mostly be burned on trivial things...
Better to begin paying off the debt instead - focusing on it with absolute precision.
A large segment of American society pays not tax, received COVID payments.
I’m not in either of those groups.
how about pay down the debt?
Let it go into the market place. Feed your local economy if you can.....Restaurants, down payment on a car...new shed...
It is absolutely critical that the Republicans win the House and Senate in 2026.
If they don't, MAGA and the country is dead.
The DOGE Dividend will show the American people concrete results from the upside results of the MAGA revolution and highlight just how much fraud waste and abuse is in the system.
Politically it's a great way to help build support for long term budget cuts and fiscal responsibility by buying political support with short term payoff.
The dividend will short circuit Democrat push back on President Trump's fiscal reforms and the dividend will facilitate spending cuts in the budget because it will be much easier to win the fight to push through a budget with long term DOGE spending cuts when they are accompanied and offset by a short term gain to help bolster an already flagging Biden economy going into the 2026 elections.
The dividends kind of flies in the face of fiscal austerity but we are already so deeply in debt from years of irresponsible and ruinous government spending that our only hope righting the sinking ship and digging out of the hole we have spent ourselves into is to get the entire country behind the DOGE reforms and the MAGA agenda.
If the DOGE Waste, Fraud and Abuse Rebate helps get this done, then it will be money well spent .
Nope. Looks like vote-buying. Don’t do it! Put it ALL - every found NICKLE - on reducing our National Debt!
Besides, all the rich virtue signaling liberals will send the money to Planned Parenthood, or somesuch.
Yep. I’m right there with ya.
Pay down the debt.
Can we just do a tax holiday instead of a check?
There is so much wrong with this. I think that among these threads on this subject that it has mostly been said.
Where I am I saw gas for $2.73 just the other day......I think your in the wrong state my friend.
A brilliant move.
This seems like a bad idea to me.
The federal debt is a black hole.
Throwing money into that black hole will not benefit anyone.
It could guarantee retaining Republican control of the Congress.
Reducing the debt would be a much better idea.
Does anyone really believe we are going to “pay off” 36 trillion in debt?
Take a look at your Senators and Congressmen and let me know.
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