Elon Musk sets conflict with the Republican deficit Hawks via ‘Doge Dividend Verification’
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Elon Musk said that US President Donald Trump supports his offer to distribute savings from government expenses directly to citizens, establishing a potential showdown with the Republican deficit Hawks.
“I spoke with the president and he supports [the idea]” Muskwho is a de facto leader of the so -called Government Efficiency Department (Doge), said a conference of conservative political action on Thursday.
“It sounds like we’ll do it.”
This week, Musk seized the idea of sending Americans “dividends checks”, and James Fishback, an investor and an early plan adviser, floated on social media.
Fishback suggested that households could get $ 5,000 if Doge He achieved his goal of reducing $ 2 in state consumption, and the goal even Musk thought he could be too ambitious.
Doge, who pierced through the Government agency, canceled hundreds of contracts and Suspending tens of thousands of federal workersHe says he has already earned $ 55 billion savings, although that number has challenged several independent analyzes.
Trump said on Wednesday that he was considering sending a “20 percent of Doge savings to American citizens” and using a further fifth to pay national debt. He said the move could encourage Americans to appear with examples of government fraud and waste.
But the speaker of American house Mike Johnson – Trump’s ally who also spoke in CPAC – said the idea was contrary to Republican values.
“It would be political for us, you send everyone a check,” Johnson said. “But if you think about our fundamental principles, fiscal responsibility is what we do as conservatives, it is our brand.
“I think we have to pay a credit card, right?” Johnson added.
In an interview with CNBC, Florida Financial Director Jimmy Patronis, a determined Trump ally who is running for the US Congress, also opposed Dividend Doga Dividendi distribution. “If it is a $ 5,000 check, I have some heartburn,” he said.
Republicans have long blamed the checks of stimuli in the amount of 1.9TN-Au Kovida Biden to punch inflation and performed television ads with a statement ahead of the November presidential elections.
But at the White House briefing on Thursday, Kevin Hassett, Trump’s Director of the National Economic Council, has played out the chances that the Dividend Doge Divide checks will have a similar effect.
“If we do not spend the government money and bring it back to the people, if they spend it all, you are uniform,” Hassett said. “But they are likely to save a lot, in which case you reduce inflation.”
Musk seemed to enjoy the political visibility of such checks.
“Money is deprived of things that are destructive to the country and from the organizations that hate you, for you,” CPAC said the crowd. “That’s great. . . It’s the prey of the battle. “
