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We are returning the peoples' money to them, enabling them to save and pay down debt rather than see it wasted and abused,
Fishback said in a reply to another skeptical X user Few in America knew precisely what to expect from DOGE. The early perceived turbulence around leadership, the uncertainty around legal structure, and the lack of precedent for such a bold initiative created a sense of 'show me' with DOGE. Just a month into President Trump’s second term, DOGE is delivering. Full stop,
wrote Fishback in his full proposal When I set up DOGE with Elon, back in October, I flew down to Texas, got Elon Musk to do it, and here was our agreement, that Elon was going to cut $1 trillion of waste, fraud, and abuse,
Lutnick said on Fox News's Jesse Watters Primetime The Chinese can’t live without selling us stuff,
Why are we going to pay them for the debt that they hold as wealth? I have no interest in paying down illegitimate debt,
Love what DOGE is doing, but this is a bad idea. There's no need to send 'dividend checks.' ... The dividend we get from slashing spending is that it brings inflation into check. But if the government sends out stimmy checks, inflation will come back with a vengeance."
Preston Brashers, a research fellow for tax policy at the conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation, wrote on X Obviously, the President is the Commander-in-Chief, so this is entirely up to him."
Tax-paying households are more likely to save (not spend) a transfer payment like the DOGE Dividend as consumption is a lower share of their income, ... There is nothing inflationary about paying off debt, saving for emergencies, or investing in college or retirement. In fact, debt paydowns are actually deflationary."
Our findings suggest that fiscal stimulus boosted the consumption of goods without any noticeable impact on production, increasing excess demand pressures in good markets,
There’s even a — under consideration, a new concept where we give 20% of the DOGE savings to American citizens and 20% goes to paying down debt,
Trump said in remarks at the FII Priority Summit in Miami on Wednesday It was important for people to understand he's doing a big job
Trump has repeatedly praised Musk for the work he's carrying out with DOGE and doubled down on that in his Hannity interview, saying This idea that people can escape to New Zealand or some other place is false. If the central pillar of Western civilization, that is America, falls, the whole roof comes crashing down, and there is no escape,
You know what's better than saying ‘trust me’? It's just full transparency. So what we're doing with DOGE, just go to DOGE.gov. You can see every single action that has been taken,
Musk told Fox News host Sean Hannity during a segment that aired Wednesday If we don't solve the deficit, there won't be money for medical care, there won't be money for Social Security,
We could do it very quickly. We would have never done it if this didn't happen. Never. It would have never been. It would only get worse and worse, and ultimately it would have exploded. This country was headed down a very bad track,
This seems like a populist measure designed to make the crippling of our federal government capacity more appealing,
President Trump and @ElonMusk should announce a 'DOGE Dividend'—a tax refund check sent to every taxpayer, funded exclusively with a portion of the total savings delivered by DOGE.
In response to the achievement, Fishback wrote on X The numbers are incredible, Elon, so many billions - hundreds of billions - and we're thinking about giving 20% back to the American citizens,
We got elected to, among other things, find all of this fraud, abuse, all of this horrible stuff going on,
he said in the Oval Office last week Given the very small share of federal spending that has been reduced, the American people could possibly take their dividend to Starbucks for half off of one coffee,
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