Trump backs ‘DOGE dividend,’ floats debt paydown using Musk savings

Haisten Willis, Washington Examiner

President Donald Trump threw his support behind the idea of a “DOGE dividend,” a check

that could be mailed out to 80 million households next summer under X CEO Elon Musk’s cost-cutting initiative. “There’s even under consideration a new concept where we give 20% of the DOGE savings to American citizens, and 20% goes to paying down debt, because the numbers are incredible,” Trump said at a Miami conference backed by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund. “So many billions of dollars [are being saved]. Billions. Hundreds of billions.”