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Top Republican senators dump cold water on Trump’s expensive midterm bribe
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The $5,000 Mirage
A Campaign Promise Without a Policy
Donald Trump told Republican convention-goers that every adult citizen would receive $5,000 if Republicans retained Congress. The estimated cost is roughly $1 trillion. Republican senators then acknowledged that they had seen no legislation, funding mechanism, eligibility rules, or even advance notice of the proposal.
That is enough context. The important fact is not that the plan appears fiscally implausible. It is that the president announced a vast public expenditure as an electoral inducement before his own…
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