President Donald Trump’s proposal to send $5,000 to every American adult if his Republican Party maintains control of the House and Senate in the November election needs congressional approval, House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday, while pledging to try to make it happen.
Trump made the unusual pitch at the party’s midterm convention in Dallas last week, promising a “Trump Dividend” if voters keep the GOP in power on Capitol Hill. The president later told CBS News Texas that he did not think Congress would need to authorize the payments, though he did not specify how he could spend more than $1 trillion without lawmakers’ authorization.
But Johnson, R-La., said congressional approval is needed. “I would assume, yes, he’d need Congress to act, and that’s a creative idea,” he said.
A few hours later, Trump said he would deliver on his promise. “The 5,000’s going to happen, 100%,” he told reporters before boarding Air Force One in Ireland, where he attended a pro golf tournament at his resort.
Johnson, meanwhile, said he would work to get Trump’s proposal through Congress despite a small Republican margin.
“He’s the big ideas president. We’re going to try to implement everything we can,” he said. “I commit that Congress will work through it and find consensus on that like they have to do everything else.”
The dubious election-year gambit could cost more than $1 trillion, putting further strains on the country’s nearly $1.8 trillion annual budget deficit and exacerbating concerns of inflation. The economy is confronted by persistent inflation and increasing interest rates, a tough combination for governing Republicans as they seek to hold on to control of Congress.
The president argues that payments would be possible because of the strong economy, but consumer sentiment is weak as gasoline prices rise because of the war with Iran and wages struggle to keep pace with inflation.
Oh, NOW they want credit? Not the war? Not the ballroom? Not his dumb arch?
They don’t want credit.
They don’t want to pay it at all. Even if the Republicans win, Trump can go, “Well, I wanted you to have it but Congress wouldn’t let you. I did my part.”
It’s all promises with no intention of keeping any of them.
Congress wouldn’t let him do a lot of things but he did them anyway so he doesn’t have much of a leg to stand on there when it comes to recent precedent. Of course that fact will be conveniently ignored (or forgotten) by him.
Ok. I’m going to be sorry I asked this, but, arch? (Not Linux, the Trump thing.)
FFS. He’s really going hard on this Fascist narcissist vibe.
I think this version is a better representation of his legacy:
He wants his Germania. He realizes that since DC literally has no federal representation, it’s easier to just do whatever, so he’s doing it there. I’m surprised half the metro hasn’t been bulldozed to make way for the Donald J Trump museum or the Museum Of Communist Crimes or whatever.
Even if these checks actually ever go out (lol), we probably will have paid more than $5,000 by then all thanks to the republicons and their idiotic policies.
Lol, they won’t pay it either way.
I would ask how dumb they think the voters are, but the stupid fucks let this dumbshit back in, so add it to the list of checks that are just a couple of weeks away…
You know, this isn’t such a bad idea if you fund it properly. It says it would cost more than $1 trillion, but there’s definitely a way of doing this without costing any real taxpayers any money.
All you need to do is take every billionaire and give them a wealth tax for all of their excess wealth above, let’s say $990 million, including all unrealized gains. Divide the resulting money by the number of US citizens, and send the checks out.
You mean his illegal bribe? Or rather “promise” of a bribe that he’ll never follow up on? Like the tariff dividend we were supposed to get but went to corporations instead?
Yeah fuck the Orange bastard.
Who’s this guy and where did he pop out from? Mike Johnson? Is that some sort of fake name? You’re not gonna tell me he’s the speaker of the house are you?
Sounds like the kind of guy that would use an app that lets him and his son monitor each others’ internet habits to discourage them both from going to porn sites.
Sounds like a weird experiment to find out if kinks are hereditary
I wish Republican voters were smart enough to know these checks won’t matter if we’re burning money for heat Weimar style.
Not only approval, but it needs to come from somewhere. As they won’t cut anything benefitting the rich, it would have to be new debts or gutting any benefits to the working class.
Trump will suck your dick for 1 billion dollars and an alibi for where he was 1000 times on an island
