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Chris Cuomo: Elon Musk didn’t even come up with the idea that’s now being called the “Doge Dividend.” It should be called the “Fishback Discount.” That’s the guy who came up with it. It came from James Fishback, an investor who’s one of the advisers to DOGE. He said, “You know what we should do? When we save all this money, we should give some of it back to the American family. Once we hit our $2 trillion target, it’ll be $5,000 each.” “Sounds great,” Musk said. “I’ll take it to the President.” So, Musk brought it to President Trump,...

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’d give 20% of the DOGE savings to American citizens and 20% goes to paying down debt.”

This would be funded exclusively with a portion of total savings delivered by DOGE. Looks like hard working taxpayers will receive a refund for much of the money stolen from us by corrupt organizations like USAID!