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President Trump said he would pay every American adult a $5,000 "Trump dividend" if Republicans retain control of Congress in November's midterm election, an extraordinary attempt to persuade voters to back his party. reut.rs/4cF0lmV

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Reuters
President Trump said he would pay every American adult a $5,000 "Trump dividend" if Republicans retain control of Congress in November's midterm election, an extraordinary attempt to persuade voters to back his party. reut.rs/4cF0lmV
NPR Politics left
President Trump promised to send every adult citizen $5,000, but only if Republicans maintain control of Congress in the midterm election, setting high expectations for the convention's final night.
Fox News right
President Donald Trump unveiled a $5,000 dividend for every American adult at the GOP midterm convention in Dallas, with one major spending caveat.
Axios center
President Trump is promising $5,000 checks for every adult U.S. citizen if Republicans retain control of Congress in the upcoming midterm election. Why it matters: He's made similar suggestions before, many times, none of which ever came to pass. It'd also cost more than $1 trillion to fulfill. The big picture: Voters are angry. Polls consistently show they feel the economy is bad and getting worse, they're preoccupied with inflation, and the most visible signs of stress — prices at the gas pump
WIRED left
President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that he would pay $5,000 to every American if Republicans retained control of the U.S. House and Senate in the midterm elections, seemingly in an effort to incentivize votes for his party. www.wired.com/story/trump-...
Bloomberg News center
Can Trump really pay every adult American a $5,000 `dividend?'
bbc.com center
Trump says every adult American will get $5,000 if Republicans win midterms
The Hill center
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) criticized President Trump’s Wednesday proposal to give every American adult a $5,000 dividend if Republicans win the midterms, as other Republicans have also voiced skepticism about the pledge. “Some of us think dependency is evil and soul-sucking in all it’s forms,” Roy wrote Thursday on social platform X, pushing back on…
Rolling Stone left
The president is promising to pay every adult $5,000 if Republicans stay in power. Why doesn't he just do it now?
The Washington Post left
President Trump has pledged a $5,000 dividend to every American adult — only if Republicans retain control of Congress in the midterm elections. The payments could cost an excess of $1 trillion.
CBS News left
President Trump says he doesn't think $5,000 dividend payments would need to be approved by Congress - CBS Texas
NYT > Top Stories left
The president’s call to send a $5,000 “dividend” to every American adult if Republicans win the midterms disturbed some members of his party.
The Wall Street Journal right
Sending $5,000 to every American adult would amount to more than what the U.S. spends on defense each year. What to know about Trump's trillion-dollar idea. https://on.wsj.com/4h5tMjD
CNN left
"Handing out $5,000 checks to every American adult if Republicans win the midterms could initially help make folks feel better about the economy," writes CNN's Aaron Blake. "Everyone loves free money. Except it isn’t free." Read more analysis: https://cnn.it/46jxC3t