{"id":16704,"date":"2025-02-21T22:38:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T22:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=16704"},"modified":"2025-02-21T22:38:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T22:38:04","slug":"elon-musk-considers-sending-all-americans-5000-checks-from-doge-savings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=16704","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Considers Sending All Americans $5,000 Checks From DOGE Savings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_7328-300x210.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_7328-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_7328.png 537w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nElon Musk reacted to a suggestion on X that the U.S. government issue a \u201cDOGE Dividend\u201d\u2014a $5,000 tax refund for citizens, funded by savings from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).<\/p>\n<p>James Fishback, CEO of Azoria and an outside advisor for DOGE, proposed the idea, stating it could be financed by the $55 billion saved through fraud detection, contract cancellations, and regulatory changes. Musk replied, \u201cWill check with the President,\u201d later adding that the decision rests with Trump.<\/p>\n<p>While DOGE has been praised for cutting government waste, it has faced criticism for allegedly having unrestricted access to sensitive federal data.<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk reacted to a suggestion on X that the U.S. government issue a \u201cDOGE Dividend\u201d\u2014a $5,000 tax refund for citizens, funded by savings from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).<\/p>\n<p>James Fishback, CEO of Azoria and an outside advisor for DOGE, proposed the idea, stating it could be financed by the $55 billion saved through fraud detection, contract cancellations, and regulatory changes. Musk replied, \u201cWill check with the President,\u201d later adding that the decision rests with Trump.<\/p>\n<p>While DOGE has been praised for cutting government waste, it has faced criticism for allegedly having unrestricted access to sensitive federal data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk reacted to a suggestion on X that the U.S. government issue a \u201cDOGE Dividend\u201d\u2014a $5,000 tax refund for citizens, funded by savings from the Department&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16706,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16704\/revisions\/16706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}