President Donald Trump and Elon Musk have been floating another round of stimulus checks, this time in the form of dividends from the Department of Government Efficiency’s potential spending cuts. If Trump were to legally reappropriate agency money into direct payments, he would need Congress to get involved.
So far, congressional Republicans aren’t sounding so keen on the idea.
“I would not support it,” House Appropriations Committee Chair Tom Cole told reporters Tuesday when asked by NOTUS about the proposal. “People tell me it’s not inflationary, but it sure looks inflationary to me and it certainly was when we did that during COVID.”