Jump to contentAllNewsSportCultureLifestyleA prominent Republican donor has criticized Trump’s proposed $5,000 checks in the latest blowback following Trump’s vow at the GOP midterm convention on Wednesday night.Joe Londsdale, a GOP donor and activist, wrote on X, “I am hugely in favor of winning the midterms, and love much about this (administration) but am strongly against bread and circus bribes.”Taking the stage for the opening night of his unusual midterms convention, Trump told voters: “If Republicans win both the House and the Senate, because of our tremendous economic success, I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States for $5,000.”Marc Goldwein, the senior policy director at the think tank Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, said Trump has no authority to send money to Americans without approval from Congress and pointed to the nation’s $40 trillion in debt.“The idea that we’ve had fiscal success is backwards and bordering on laughable,” he said. “We don’t have surpluses to give away.”In fullHow will Trump’s $5,000 ‘dividend’ work – and is it legal?More bulletinsThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in
GOP donor criticizes Trump’s proposed $5,000 ‘bread and circus bribe’
Jump to contentAllNewsSportCultureLifestyleA prominent Republican donor has criticized Trump’s proposed $5,000 checks in the latest blowback following Trump’s vow at the GOP midterm convention on Wednesday night.Joe Londsdale, a GOP donor and activist, wrote on X, “I am hugely in favor of winning the midterms, and love much about this (administration) but am strongly against bread and circus bribes.”Taking the stage for the opening night of his unusual midterms convention, Trump told voters: “If Republicans win both the House and the Senate, because of our tremendous economic success, I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States for $5,000.”Marc Goldwein, the senior policy director at the think tank Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, said Trump has no authority to send money to Americans without approval from Congress and pointed to the nation’s $40 trillion in debt.“The idea that we’ve had fiscal success is backwards and bordering on laughable,” he said. “We don’t have surpluses to give away.”In fullHow will Trump’s $5,000 ‘dividend’ work – and is it legal?More bulletinsThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in
