Only I can fix it · Second term · № 61
Only he could promise a $5,000 'Trump dividend' if the GOP wins
“But what we're doing is because we've done so well, and because our country is making so much money that only I can make this promise to you, and here is my promise. If the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the United States Senate, both of them, because of our economic—tremendous economic success—in history, we've never had anything like what's happening, but because of our tremendous strength and success economically, I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000.”
- Said
- , Night one of the 2026 Republican Midterm Convention, Dallas, Texas
- Subject
- a $5,000 dividend for every adult
- Topic
- Economy & prices
- Era
- Second term
What happened
PolitiFact found no formal proposal existed and that the payout would cost about $1.2 trillion a year ($5,000 times roughly 240 million adult citizens, per the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget), would require congressional approval, and could add about 1.5 points to inflation. Two earlier promised payouts, a 2025 "DOGE dividend" of $5,000 and a $2,000 tariff dividend, never materialized; tariff collections totaled about $363 billion from January 2025 to April 2026, with refunds under way after a Supreme Court ruling. The midterms had not yet been held as of September 2026.