‘DOGE Dividend’ Checks Could Be Coming: 5 Things We Know So Far

Supporters of the idea say that about one-fifth of funds saved from spending cuts resulting from DOGE audits could be distributed to taxpaying households.

Blank U.S. Treasury checks are run through a printer at the U.S. Treasury printing facility in Philadelphia on July 18, 2011. William Thomas Cain/Getty Images

An idea that emerged on social media platform X that checks could be sent to Americans in light of savings made from federal spending cuts resulting from Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) audits received the support of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, who leads DOGE.

Supporters of the idea say that if Musk’s target of $2 trillion in spending cuts is achieved by next year, about one-fifth, or 20 percent, of those funds could be distributed to taxpaying households in checks of about $5,000.

Musk Supports It

“I talked to the president and he is supportive of [the checks]” Musk told the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Thursday. “It sounds like that is something we are going to do.”