Fox News host Laura Ingraham had people nodding their heads after she bluntly asked President Donald Trump why he doesn't just give people money now after pledging to give every adult American a $5,000 "dividend" check if Republicans win the midterm elections.
Democrats have dismissed Trump's proposal as a bribe, and an analysis by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget determined the proposal would cost taxpayers $1.2 trillion at a time when critics are calling for the Trump administration to reel in government spending on various projects during a nationwide affordability crisis.
Trump, however, compared the payments to a corporation’s distributions to shareholders, saying they're representative of “our tremendous strength and success economically.”
You can hear his proposal in the video below.
And during her interview with Trump, Ingraham decided to get right to the point, asking:
“Why not just give the money now? If you have the money, why not give it now?”
Trump attacked Democrats, as expected, and defaulted to talking about his tariff policy, seemingly forgetting that it's his own party that controls Congress:
“Because the Democrats can’t do it. Because for them, it’s negative growth. With us, it’s so positive."
"So, we’re taking in $21 trillion. No country has ever taken in anywhere near that. It’s four or five times higher than the next one. All because of the beautiful word you and I love more than most others: tariffs.”
You can watch the exchange in the video below.
Ingraham was asking the real questions for once—and people definitely don't believe Trump will deliver.
Good luck if you think anyone is going to receive a payment.
Although Vice President JD Vance earlier agreed the proposal could be paid for with U.S. tariff revenue, he tried to walk back Trump's remarks to an extent and said that the proposed "dividend" should not be paid out to wealthy people.
It would ultimately be up to Congress to approve such a payment, noted Associated Press reporters, adding that "the national debt last month topped $40 trillion for the first time."
Marc Goldwein, the senior policy director at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, pointed out that the U.S. is running $2 trillion annual deficits, noting "the idea that we’ve had fiscal success is backwards and bordering on laughable."
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