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The promise is a $5,000 cash payment to every adult American citizen, funded by what President Donald Trump describes as $21 trillion in tariff revenue.
The complication is that annual tariff receipts fall well short of the proposal's estimated cost, Republicans hold a narrow House majority of 218 seats to Democrats' 214, and the entire initiative requires congressional approval to become law.
Trump unveiled the "Trump dividend" on the opening night of the first-ever Republican midterm convention in Dallas, Texas, framing the payment as something a "successful company will do" when it distributes cash to shareholders.
He reiterated the offer Thursday in an interview on Fox News's "The Ingraham Angle" with host Laura Ingraham, conditioning the payments on Republicans retaining control of both the House and the Senate.
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