Trump's $5,000 Dividend: A $1.38T Fiscal Shock Funded by Only $109B in Tariffs
Trump's conditional $5,000 per-adult payout would total roughly $1.38 trillion — more than 1.7 times the entire $814 billion COVID stimulus program — while the proposed tariff funding source is projected to raise only $109 billion in 2026. The resulting $1.2 trillion-plus shortfall, legal hurdles, and intra-GOP pushback make the pledge a live fiscal-policy risk for rates, inflation, and consumer-spending forecasts.
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