White House senior adviser Stephen Miller spoke on Thursday about the an idea that the administration is kicking around involving the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) sending Americans “dividend checks” from wasteful spending that the department has uncovered.
Miller made the remarks when asked by a reporter at a press briefing about the dividend checks potentially giving taxpayers back 20% while another 20% would be used to pay down the debt.
“Sixty percent is left, who gets that?” the reporter asked.
“Well, the way that it works is when you achieve savings, you can either return it to taxpayers, you can return it to our debtors, or it can be cycled into next year’s budget, and then it just lowers the overall baseline for next year,” he said. “So, in other words, you can just transfer it into the next fiscal window and then lower the overall spending…
