Tech billionaire and advisor to President Donald Trump, Elon Musk said that he “will check with the president” on a $5,000 Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) dividend for every American taxpayer.
Will check with the President
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 18, 2025
“President Trump and @ElonMusk should announce a ‘DOGE Dividend’—a tax refund check sent to every taxpayer, funded exclusively with a portion of the total savings delivered by DOGE,” said Azoria Investment Fund CEO and outside advisor to DOGE James Fishback.
The news comes amid a federal judge denying a temporary restraining order (TRO), filed by California and 13 other states, aimed at preventing DOGE from accessing federal payment systems.
During the proceedings, the Whitehouse submitted a filing stating that Musk ‘is not the U.S. DOGE service administrator’, can only advise the president and communicate the president’s directives.
Take $400 billion savings and return to U.S. households
In Fishback’s post on X, he makes a case for the DOGE Dividend.
“With DOGE reportedly achieving $1 billion in savings per day, President Trump has an opportunity to work with Congress to take DOGE one step further and deliver what we at Azoria call the “DOGE Dividend,” a tax refund check to be sent after the expiration of DOGE in July 2026 funded exclusively with a portion of the total savings delivered by DOGE,” wrote Fishback.
He proposes to take 20% of DOGE’s total savings ($400 billion) and return it to the ~79 million U.S. households that will be net payers of federal income tax in CY 2025 as a tax-refund check called the “DOGE Dividend.”
Fishback said the checks would compensate American taxpayers for the egregious misuse and abuse of their hard-earned tax dollars that DOGE has uncovered.
DOGE says total estimated savings are $55 billion so far
The DOGE website’s ‘Wall of Receipts’ has an account of its findings and lists the total estimated savings at $55 billion.
However, according to Bloomberg, the website only accounts for $16.6 billion of that.
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