{"id":78507,"date":"2026-09-10T09:55:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T14:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/10\/trumps-promise-of-5000-dividend-for-us-citizens-after-midterms-met-with-incredulity\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T09:55:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T14:55:21","slug":"trumps-promise-of-5000-dividend-for-us-citizens-after-midterms-met-with-incredulity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/10\/trumps-promise-of-5000-dividend-for-us-citizens-after-midterms-met-with-incredulity\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s promise of $5,000 \u2018dividend\u2019 for US citizens after midterms met with incredulity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Critics call bid for Republican votes \u2018bribery\u2019 and point to potential $1.2tn cost added to existing national debt<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s promise of a $5,000 \u201cTrump dividend\u201d for every US citizen if Republicans retain control of the US Congress in November\u2019s midterm elections has sparked incredulity and accusations of bribery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the Republicans win, you win with us and you get $5,000,\u201d Trump said during the unprecedented Republican midterm convention in Dallas. \u201cIt will be called the Trump dividend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/10\/trump-5000-midterm-cash-dividend-response\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics call bid for Republican votes \u2018bribery\u2019 and point to potential $1.2tn cost added to existing national debt Donald Trump\u2019s promise of a $5,000 \u201cTrump dividend\u201d for every US citizen if Republicans retain control of the US Congress in November\u2019s midterm elections has sparked incredulity and accusations of bribery. \u201cIf the Republicans win, you win &#8230; <a title=\"Trump\u2019s promise of $5,000 \u2018dividend\u2019 for US citizens after midterms met with incredulity\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/10\/trumps-promise-of-5000-dividend-for-us-citizens-after-midterms-met-with-incredulity\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump\u2019s promise of $5,000 \u2018dividend\u2019 for US citizens after midterms met with incredulity\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}