{"id":78597,"date":"2026-09-12T10:54:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T15:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/12\/taxes-wouldnt-fund-5000-trump-dividend-if-republicans-win-midterms-says-commerce-secretary\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T10:54:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T15:54:49","slug":"taxes-wouldnt-fund-5000-trump-dividend-if-republicans-win-midterms-says-commerce-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/12\/taxes-wouldnt-fund-5000-trump-dividend-if-republicans-win-midterms-says-commerce-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxes wouldn\u2019t fund $5,000 Trump \u2018dividend\u2019 if Republicans win midterms, says commerce secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lutnick said $500bn of estimated $1tn needed to fund checks to all US adults could come from new visa program<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s controversial proposal to give a $5,000 \u201cdividend\u201d to all US adults if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/republicans\">Republicans<\/a> maintain control of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-congress\">Congress<\/a> in November\u2019s elections would not be paid out from US tax revenues, according to the US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not tax money,\u201d Lutnick <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/business\/economy\/lutnick-trump-5000-check-taxpayer-funds-rcna597092\">said in an interview with NBC News<\/a>, adding that the administration could \u201cearn the money that Donald Trump wants to pay out, not from the deficit and not from taxpayers\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/12\/trump-midterm-dividend-funding\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lutnick said $500bn of estimated $1tn needed to fund checks to all US adults could come from new visa program Donald Trump\u2019s controversial proposal to give a $5,000 \u201cdividend\u201d to all US adults if Republicans maintain control of Congress in November\u2019s elections would not be paid out from US tax revenues, according to the US &#8230; <a title=\"Taxes wouldn\u2019t fund $5,000 Trump \u2018dividend\u2019 if Republicans win midterms, says commerce secretary\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/12\/taxes-wouldnt-fund-5000-trump-dividend-if-republicans-win-midterms-says-commerce-secretary\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Taxes wouldn\u2019t fund $5,000 Trump \u2018dividend\u2019 if Republicans win midterms, says commerce secretary\">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-78597","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\/78597","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=78597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}