Elon Musk, DOGE and Stimulus
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Newsweek |
Musk's DOGE, which has been tapped by the Trump administration to shrink the "bloated" size of the federal government, as the president put it, has claimed to have saved $130 billion since its creati...
Politico |
Musk will begin dialing back his role in Washington.
The New York Times |
Mark Green, a Republican who once worked under President Trump, stepped down as head of the Wilson Center after employees of Elon Musk’s team visited the think tank.
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President Trump said he's considering a plan to pay out $5,000 stimulus checks to taxpayers in the form of a 'DOGE dividend.' Will it ever happen?
The plan involves splitting up 20% of DOGE’s total savings — an estimated $2 trillion — and dividing it into $5,000 checks.
The CEO who proposed the idea of $5,000 stimulus checks says there's no guarantee Elon Musk's DOGE will pay the full amount, and it could be much less.
A HOT TOPIC TRENDING ON GOOGLE IS AN ARTICLE THAT SAYS ELON MUSK AND THE STAFF AT DOGE WILL SEND OUT STIMULUS CHECKS WORTH $1 MILLION TO CERTAIN AMERICANS. THAT’S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN, JUST FYI. AS WESH 2 NEWS MICHELLE MEREDITH REPORTS,
James Fishback, CEO of investment firm Azoria, first suggested the idea in a post on X and later told CNBC, “Americans sent their hard-earned tax dollars to Washington, D.C., and some of those tax dollars were wasted.