09/10/2026
The $5,000 ‘Trump Dividend’...What Would It Actually Cost Us?
It’s a $1 trillion promise that would accelerate the fiscal spiral we have been warning about here. Imagine the impact on the U.S. debt, already large deficits, and the demand for higher yields.
The $5,000 Dividend…Unlikely To Happen, But What If It Did?
At the Republican Party’s midterm convention in Dallas, President Trump made a promise: if Republicans hold the House and Senate in November, every adult American citizen gets a $5,000 check. Of course, such a payout would be unfunded and would have to be paid by printing more money, increasing our already very, very heavy debt load.
“Here is my promise,” he told the crowd. “I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000, very much like a successful company will do a cash distribution to its shareholders.”
It’s a compelling pitch. It’s also, on the numbers, a promise made at a time when the U.S. can likely least afford it, given inflation, U.S. debt, deficits running at about $2 trillion this year, and investors in our ballooning debt who may already be demanding higher yields to buy it.
Read the entire story at Substack here https://hallmarkabsservice.substack.com/p/the-5000-trump-dividendwhat-would
