2026年9月17日 美国东部时间11:14 / 福克斯新闻
道格拉斯·霍尔茨-埃金告诉福克斯新闻数字频道：狗狗币支票、关税支票和居家妈妈补贴均面临重大障碍
作者：彼得·达布罗萨 福克斯新闻
一位曾参与制定政府经济政策的顶尖经济学家警告称，唐纳德·特朗普总统向美国人发放现金补贴的计划大概率无法实现，且这些计划对美国梦有着严重负面影响。
这位经济学家兼前国会预算鹰派人士告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，特朗普总统对美国人做出的最新现金承诺不太可能兑现，就像此前的诸多承诺一样。
“总统已经许下了很多支票承诺，最近的一项是如果共和党守住参众两院，就向每位美国人发放5000美元。我们真的能拿到这笔钱吗？我认为不可能，”美国财政政策智库美国行动论坛主席道格拉斯·霍尔茨-埃金说道。
霍尔茨-埃金曾担任国会预算办公室主任，还曾在已故共和党参议员约翰·麦凯恩2008年总统竞选团队中担任国内政策与经济政策主管。
特朗普为5000美元分红提案辩护，在《英格拉哈姆视角》节目中称赞“漂亮”的关税政策
特朗普多次为关税政策辩护，称其是其经济议程的关键支柱，表示关税将推动制造业回流美国，并在共和党试图在11月选举中守住国会席位之际增加财政收入。（迈克·克罗夫/盖蒂图片社）
“狗狗币支票从一开始就不现实，因为狗狗币永远不可能节省那么多资金，”霍尔茨-埃金在谈及埃隆·马斯克领导的政府效率部对联邦机构进行大规模裁员和预算削减时说道。
他补充道：“关税支票也从未真正具备可行性，因为特朗普没有签发这类支票的法定权力，实际上所有这类承诺都存在这样的问题。”
霍尔茨-埃金还提到，特朗普政府最近提出的向居家妈妈发放9000美元支票的计划大概率也无法落地。
“试图向居家妈妈发放育儿补贴，并非没有可行路径，但难度极大……我们拭目以待他们能否真正落实，”他说。“因此，我对这些支票能很快寄到大家邮箱里持怀疑态度。”
这位国际知名经济学家将特朗普政府的财政政策与前总统乔·拜登领导的民主党政府相提并论。
“我认为我们已经看到两届连续政府陷入了同样的困境：通胀过高，工资涨幅跟不上通胀增速。这就是对美国梦的失败，”霍尔茨-埃金解释道。
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他表示，控制通胀是恢复经济秩序的第一步，并“完全支持”美联储——霍尔茨-埃金称美联储正致力于实现这一目标。
美联储周三时隔三年首次加息，并暗示可能会进一步加息。此举正值特朗普施压这家全球最具影响力的央行降息，以减轻美国民众申请住房和汽车贷款的月度负担之际。
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“通胀仍处于高位，”联邦公开市场委员会在会后声明中表示。“今日的政策行动将有助于委员会更及时地实现2%的通胀目标。委员会将致力于实现物价稳定。”
“我认为我们需要一个更具活力的经济，目前的经济状况尚可，但正面临诸多逆风，”霍尔茨-埃金说道。
他点名了特朗普政府的几项具体政策决定，称这些是导致经济疲软的罪魁祸首，而经济疲软让中产阶级不堪重负，食品价格持续上涨。
“首先是关税政策带来的逆风，其次是油价以及与伊朗的对峙，我们需要摆脱这些争端，让经济自由发展……这将为普通家庭创造更好的环境，”他告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
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2025年7月24日，在华盛顿特区，唐纳德·特朗普总统向美联储主席杰罗姆·鲍威尔展示了他所谓的美联储25亿美元总部翻新项目的超支清单。（奇普·索莫德维拉/盖蒂图片社）
谈及整体财政政策，霍尔茨-埃金表示，他担心美国在经济和财政政策方面正走上歧途。
“我曾担任国会预算办公室主任。我每天都得翻看账本，琢磨‘这笔账怎么才能算平？’”他说。“而现在这笔账根本算不平。”
“我们的国债规模已达41万亿美元，每年的财政赤字为2万亿美元，且还在不断扩大。你不能无休止地让民众依赖政府项目，这样下去账根本算不平。”
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他提出了一项解决方案——回归“老式保守主义”政治。
“我希望能看到政策转向，控制债务规模，减少不必要的开支，并且无需提高税收就能渡过当前难关。在我看来，这就是老式保守主义的施政纲领，但我们目前看不到这样的方向。”
福克斯新闻数字频道已联系白宫就特朗普的经济承诺置评，但截至发稿未收到回复。
彼得·达布罗萨是福克斯新闻数字频道的政治记者。
Trump’s $5K checks could join stack of past unfulfilled promises, former Congress budget chief warns
September 17, 2026 11:14am EDT / Fox News
Douglas Holz-Eakin tells Fox News Digital DOGE checks, tariff checks and stay-at-home-mom payments all face major hurdles
By Peter D’Abrosca Fox News
A top economist who worked to set government economic policy is warning the President Donald Trump’s plan to send cash payments to Americans likely won’t pan out, and that the plans have serious implications for the American Dream.
President Donald Trump’s latest cash promise to Americans is unlikely to come to fruition, just like others before it, an economist and former congressional budget hawk told Fox News Digital.
“So the president has promised a lot of checks, the most recent being $5,000 to every American if Republicans hold on to the House and Senate. We ever going to see these? Well, I don’t think so,” said Douglas Holz-Eakin, president of fiscal policy think tank American Action Forum.
Holz-Eakin previously served as the director of the Congressional Budget Office, and as the director of domestic and economic policy for late Republican Sen. John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign.
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“The DOGE checks were never realistic because DOGE was never going to save that much money,” said Holz-Eakin in reference to the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency’s sweeping layoffs and budget cuts to federal agencies.
He continued: “And the tariff checks were never that realistic because [Trump] didn’t have the authority to issue the checks, and that’s actually true of all of these promises.”
Holz-Eakin also mentioned the Trump administration’s recently-proposed plan to give $9,000 checks to stay-at-home-mothers likely won’t come through either.
“Trying to get money to stay at home moms for childcare, there’s a route to that, but it’s gonna be tough … we’ll see if they actually pull it off,” he said. “So, I would be skeptical that any of these checks are gonna be in your mailbox very soon.”
The internationally-known economist likened the Trump administration’s fiscal policy to that of former President Joe Biden’s Democratic administration.
“I think we’ve seen two successive administrations get themselves in the following position: inflation is too high and wages aren’t keeping up with it. Well, that’s failing at the American dream,” Holz-Eakin explained.
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He said that getting inflation under control was the first step in restoring order, as well as being “utterly supportive” of the Federal Reserve, which Holz-Eatin says is working to achieve that goal.
The Fed hiked interest rates Wednesday for the first time in three years, and signaled that more rate increases could be coming. This comes despite Trump’s push to have the world’s most powerful central bank lower interest rates to lessen the monthly burden on American’s seeking home and auto loans.
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“Inflation remains elevated,” the Federal Open Market Committee said in a post-meeting statement. “Today’s policy action will support a timelier return to the Committee’s 2 percent goal. The Committee will deliver price stability.”
“You need to have, I think, a more vibrant economy, and this economy is doing okay, but it’s putting up with a lot of headwinds,” said Holz-Eatin.
He named specific Trump administration policy decisions he says are to blame for the lackluster economy, which has burdened the middle class as grocery prices continue to rise.
“The first headwinds were tariffs, second headwinds were the the oil prices and fight with Iran, and we need to get past those battles and, and let the economy just go, and … that would be a better environment for the families,” he told Fox News Digital.
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As for overall fiscal policy, Holz-Eatin says he’s worried that the country is going in the wrong direction when it comes to economic and fiscal policy.
“I’m a former director of the Congressional Budget Office. I have to every day get up and look at the books and wonder, ‘how’s this going to add up?’” he said. “And right now it doesn’t add up.”
“We’re $41 trillion in debt. The deficit is $2 trillion every year and it’s getting larger. You can’t just keep putting people on the on government programs. It won’t add up.”
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He proposed a fix — reverting to “old school conservative” politics.
“I’d like to see a bit of a U-turn that got the debt under control, didn’t spend quite so much money, and got through this without having to raise our taxes. So, that sounds like an old school conservative plan to me, but that’s not what we’re seeing right now.”
Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment on Trump’s economic promises, but did not hear back at time of publication.
Peter D’Abrosca is a politics reporter at Fox News Digital.
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