On the order of 1.5 Trillion. Never Going To Happen ™

I would believe Lucy holding the football long before Trump talking about giving anyone money.

It’s basically the covid subsidies twice over… so, in theory it could be done… but realistically no it’s not going to happen, just like the tarrif refunds and the doge checks.

If it’s from the government, yes, there’s nobody but taxpayers paying it - either by the Treasury, borrowing with interest or money printing that devalues everyone’s money.

Money comes from somewhere and the government is in effect a financial proxy for the public. He’s offering us our own money.

The billionaires certainly would not be paying for it.

The current estimate is about 270+ million adults in the US. So 270 * 5 is 1350, so about 1.35 trillion.

Nobody is going to pay for it because it wasn’t congressionally approved. It was a false promise given by a turd that can’t follow through with it.

How’d they propose to verify it anyway? Do you take a photo of your ballot and send it in - or is voting not anonymous in USA?!

I guess they could pay every resident of a county that ends up R or whatever.

Realistically I’d think all the Rs have to do is say they’re going to do it anyway - some dumbfucks may believe, vote and forget for next time that it was an empty promise. Seems like a decent strategy for them.

Why meth addicts, though?

If only ⅓ actually vote, that’s around 110m people (assuming all are adults of legal voting age). If about ⅓ actually identify as a Republican, that’s about 35k people. 35m x $5,000 = $175b. (Edited)

Considering Trump’s doubled his worth to over $11b (illegally) he could theoretically pay for it. Not that he will lol. But he made more than that on his crypto rug pull scheme, so… There’s that.

Edit: there’s something like 340m people in the US, but obviously not all are over 18. I think I read a while back roughly a third of the country consider themselves more of an independent. That’s where I’m getting figures from.