Tiana Lowe Doescher says she hopes Trump’s $5,000 dividend
Washington Examiner economics columnist Tiana Lowe Doescher criticized President Donald Trump’s promise to hand out $5,000 dividends if Republicans maintain…
Tiana Lowe Doescher is a sharp economics writer, but her CNN take on Trump’s $5,000 dividend missed the difference between a bribe and a refund. Biden’s checks were funded with borrowed money. They helped light the inflation fire that voters still feel at the grocery store.
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Washington Examiner economics columnist Tiana Lowe Doescher criticized President Donald Trump ’s promise to hand out $5,000 dividends if Republicans maintain control of both houses in Congress.
“I mean, if you’re sending out liquid stimulus checks, you’re losing, and who knows that better than Joe Biden,” Doescher said Monday on CNN This Morning. “This is a great way to send inflation back up.”
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Trump made the dividend promise during his appearance at the Republican National Committee midterm convention in Dallas. The proposal has since faced criticism from members of his own party, who worry about setting a bad precedent and increasing the national debt.
“I kind of wish he would wink at the end so I knew it was a bit,” Doescher said. “I mean, in all seriousness, sending out free money, that’s the way you get the 10-year Treasury yield well over 5%. It’s at 5.2%, and that’s what matters.”
Doescher said people under 65 have not experienced serious inflation until “Bidenomics,” leading to confusion on what drives prices.
“And you don’t understand that … unless we have an actual recession or depression, prices don’t go down,” Doescher said. “The only job is to make real incomes go up.”
Affordability is at the forefront of many voters’ minds heading into the midterm elections as Republicans campaign for highly competitive seats. Despite disagreeing with the president’s plan for dividends, Doescher said Trump has succeeded in other areas of the economy.
“Trump has delivered on the growth element, going all in on AI, productivity, that is good,” Doescher said. “But the prices have not slowed down enough.”
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Tiana Lowe Doescher is a sharp economics writer, but her CNN take on Trump’s $5,000 dividend missed the difference between a bribe and a refund. Biden’s checks were funded with borrowed money. They helped light the inflation fire that voters still feel at the grocery store. Trump’s dividend is supposed to come from actual savings found in the federal budget, not from pushing a button at the Fed. That’s returning stolen money to the owners. If that’s political losing, we could use more of it.
The left will call it a gimmick. They called tax cuts a gimmick too, right before the economy outperformed their predictions. What Doescher should actually question is whether the promise is credible. Can DOGE really find enough waste to write every household a $5,000 check? That’s fair to ask. But the answer isn’t to sneer at the idea of giving people their own money back. The answer is to hold the government to its word. If Trump says he’ll find billions in waste and hand it over, then hold him to it.
There’s a political reality here too. Biden’s stimulus checks didn’t lose the election by themselves. He combined them with a war on American energy and told everyone inflation was “transitory” while prices climbed. Trump’s dividend works because it ties a concrete dollar amount to shrinking Washington. Republicans shouldn’t run from that. We’re not Biden. Repeating a failed left-wing experiment is not the same as offering people a real stake in cutting the government down to size.
Commentary written with AI assistance by the New Republican Times Editorial Board.