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President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he’s considering sending money directly to Americans, using funds from the claimed savings of Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency.
A little bit less than that… DOGE is claiming they found $55B in savings, Trump wants to kick back 20% to taxpayers.
So 20% of 55B = 11B.
164 million taxpayers:
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/taxes/taxes-statistics/
So $11B/164M = $67 each.
OTOH… DOGE hasn’t actually found $55B, best anyone can figure it’s more like $2B.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doge-wall-of-receipts-shows-errors-tallying-billions-in-savings/
So running the same formula, 20% of 2B = $400,000,000 / 164M = $2.44 per taxpayer.
I absolutely believe they’ll cut a check for $5000, say it’s the savings, and then say Democrats caused the renewed inflation.
Is that before or after someone noticed their $8B in savings was $8m? Or before they had to rehire all those departments they fired before they realized they were critical?
I could buy 4 eggs with that!