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该计划总成本可能超过1.2万亿美元，这意味着关税收入仅能覆盖预估成本的13%
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前总统唐纳德·特朗普提出，如果共和党赢得国会参众两院，就向美国成年人发放5000美元支票，这一提议迫使共和党人就一项通常与民主党相关的理念展开辩论：由政府直接向选民发放补贴。
前弗吉尼亚州共和党众议员鲍勃·古德将这项所谓的“特朗普红利”斥为“社会主义式买票伎俩”，并指出只有共和党在11月的选举中保住参众两院席位，这笔钱才会发放。特朗普在达拉斯举行的共和党中期代表大会上宣布了这一计划。
古德警告称，这笔补贴将进一步推高已突破40万亿美元的美国国债。
根据约2.4亿符合资格的成年人口估算，该计划总成本可能超过1.2万亿美元。总统无权直接命令财政部发放支票，必须经由国会立法授权才能启动这项支出计划。
特朗普在达拉斯中期代表大会上为拉拢共和党选民作出史无前例的现金承诺
2026年9月9日，得克萨斯州达拉斯，美国航空公司中心，2026年共和党全国代表大会首日，唐纳德·特朗普总统在台上发表演讲。（布兰登·贝尔/盖蒂图片社）
“如果共和党赢得众议院和参议院席位……我将向美国每一位成年公民发放5000美元红利，”特朗普在周三晚间的主旨演讲中说道。
他将这笔补贴比作成功企业向股东派发的现金分红，并表示这笔钱必须在美国境内消费。
“我唯一的附加条件是，我们发放的红利必须在美国国内花掉，”特朗普说，“我们不想看到你去加拿大消费这笔钱。”
“如果你们让我们继续掌权，让我们继续推进这些举措，那么你们将能分享我们在美国创造的这份惊人财富的一部分收益，”副总统JD·万斯在特朗普公布这一新提案后表示。
保守派评论员马特·沃尔什称该计划是“公然的贿赂”，并表示共和党本可以通过减税让劳动阶层民众保留更多自己的收入，以此帮助他们。
“将其作为选举后的诱饵，简直厚颜无耻，”沃尔什写道。
万斯和特朗普都将关税收入作为补贴资金的潜在来源，外界也随之产生了这笔红利的资金将从何处筹集的疑问。
“民主党之所以做不到这一点，是因为他们不征收关税，他们不会创收，他们只懂制造贫困，”特朗普在周三晚间的演讲中说道。
美国财政部数据显示，2025年10月1日至2026年7月31日期间，联邦政府通过关税累计征收约1544亿美元，仅能覆盖向约2.4亿成年人发放5000美元支票所需1.2万亿美元成本的约13%。
本届政府未公布这项针对中产阶层的补贴计划的收入门槛，也未说明将有多少关税收入专门用于该项目。剩余成本将不得不通过其他联邦收入、削减开支或额外举债来弥补。
国会支出7万亿美元；若仅看100美元，这笔账是这么算的
2026年9月9日，得克萨斯州达拉斯，美国航空公司中心，2026年共和党全国代表大会首日，唐纳德·特朗普总统在台上发表演讲。（贾斯汀·沙利文/盖蒂图片社）
万斯在特朗普周三晚间演讲后的采访中还暗示，该提案可能仅面向美国中产阶层，而非所有成年公民，这或将降低计划成本。
这位副总统为该计划辩护称，其“本质上是美国工人的红利”，并辩称关税收入来自那些占美国工人便宜的外国企业和国家。
该提案的资金来源和资格认定问题引发了财政保守派的批评，他们表示该计划将新增一项政府福利，同时进一步推高国债。
德克萨斯州共和党众议员奇普·罗伊表示，这项红利提案预估的1.2万亿美元成本，本可以用于取消年收入20万美元以下有受抚养子女的已婚夫妇的税收。
“或者我们中的一些人可能认为，依附性不管以何种形式存在都是邪恶且消磨意志的，”罗伊在后续发帖中补充道。
共和党人的这番批评反映了保守派的主流观点：减税优于直接发钱，因为减税能缩小政府规模，而非让美国人更加依赖政府。
曾提出过5000美元狗狗币红利计划的佛罗里达州前州长候选人詹姆斯·菲什巴克表示，他的计划将返还通过削减开支节省下来的资金。与此同时，他批评特朗普的提案只会增加债务，而不会相应削减政府开支。
投资者乔·朗斯代尔称该想法是“面包与马戏式的贿赂”。前阿肯色州州长阿萨·哈钦森敦促共和党领导人否决该提案，并将重点放在削减债务上。
2026年9月9日，得克萨斯州达拉斯，美国航空公司中心，共和党全国代表大会首日，唐纳德·特朗普总统向台下观众致意。（贾斯汀·沙利文/盖蒂图片社）
其他共和党人和特朗普的盟友则持相反态度。
俄亥俄州共和党参议员伯尼·莫雷诺表示，他将在选举后起草相关立法以推动这项红利计划，而堪萨斯州共和党参议员罗杰·马歇尔则向选民询问他们会如何使用这5000美元。
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各方反应凸显了共和党内部的分裂：一方主张将关税收入返还给美国民众，另一方则坚持共和党传统的减税、削减开支和减少政府依赖的立场。
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Trump faces reckoning as GOP figures label $5K promise a ‘socialist vote-buying scheme’
September 10, 2026 4:26pm EDT / Fox News
The plan could cost more than $1.2 trillion, meaning tariff revenue would cover only 13% of the estimated price tag
Morgan Phillips
By Morgan Phillips Fox News
President Donald Trump’s proposal to send $5,000 checks to American adults if Republicans win both chambers of Congress is forcing Republicans to debate an idea more commonly associated with the Democratic side of the aisle: sending direct government payments to voters.
Called a “socialist vote-buying scheme” by former GOP Rep. Bob Good of Virginia, the so-called Trump Dividend would only be handed down if Republicans keep the House and Senate in November, the president announced at the party’s midterm convention in Dallas.
Good warned that the checks would add to the national debt, which has topped $40 trillion.
The plan could cost more than $1.2 trillion, based on estimates of roughly 240 million eligible adults. The president cannot direct the Treasury to issue the checks without a law providing that authority, so Congress would need to authorize the spending plan.
TRUMP MAKES STUNNING FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND CASH PROMISE IN BID TO RALLY GOP VOTERS AT DALLAS MIDTERM CONVENTION
President Donald Trump speaks on stage on the first day of the 2026 Republican National Convention at the American Airlines Center on Sept. 9, 2026, in Dallas, Texas.(Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
“If the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the United States Senate, both of them … I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000,” Trump said during his keynote address Wednesday night.
He compared the payment to a cash distribution from a successful company to its shareholders and said the money would have to be spent domestically.
“The only caveat I have is that the dividend that we’re making must be spent in the United States of America,” Trump said. “We don’t want you going to Canada to spend the money.”
“If you keep us in power and allow us to continue to do these things, then you’re going to share in some of the benefit of this incredible wealth that we’re creating in the United States of America,” Vice President JD Vance said after Trump unveiled his new idea.
Conservative commentator Matt Walsh called the plan “flagrant bribery” and said Republicans could help working Americans by allowing them to keep more of their own money through tax cuts.
“Holding it as a carrot on the stick for after the election is just shameless,” Walsh wrote.
Vance and Trump both pointed to tariff revenue as a potential funding source for the payments, and questions emerged over where the money would come from to fund the dividends.
“The reason the Democrats can’t do that is because they don’t do tariffs. They don’t take in money. All they know is poverty,” Trump said Wednesday night.
Treasury data show the federal government collected about $154.4 billion in customs duties from Oct. 1, 2025, through July 31, 2026, which would cover roughly 13% of the estimated $1.2 trillion cost of sending $5,000 checks to about 240 million adults.
The administration has not provided an income threshold for the proposed middle-class payments or explained how much tariff revenue would be dedicated to the program. The remaining cost would have to be covered through other federal revenue, spending reductions or additional borrowing.
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President Donald Trump speaks on stage on the first day of the 2026 Republican National Convention at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas, Sept. 9, 2026.(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Vance also suggested in an interview after the president’s speech Wednesday that the proposal could be limited to middle-class Americans rather than every adult citizen, potentially lowering the cost.
The VP defended the idea as “fundamentally a dividend for American workers,” arguing that tariffs have generated revenue from foreign companies and countries that have taken advantage of American workers.
The proposal’s funding and eligibility questions have fueled criticism from fiscal conservatives, who say the plan would create a new government benefit while adding to the national debt.
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, said the estimated $1.2 trillion cost of the dividend proposal could instead be used to eliminate taxes for married parents with dependents earning up to $200,000.
“Or maybe some of us think dependency is evil & soul-sucking in all its forms,” Roy wrote in a follow-up post.
That criticism from Republicans reflects a broader conservative argument that tax cuts are preferable to direct payments because they reduce the government’s role rather than create a new reason for Americans to rely on it.
James Fishback, a former Florida gubernatorial candidate who previously proposed a $5,000 DOGE dividend, said his plan would have returned savings generated by spending cuts. Meanwhile, he argued Trump’s proposal would add to the debt without a comparable reduction in government spending.
Investor Joe Lonsdale called the idea “bread and circus bribes.” Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson urged Republican leaders to reject it and focus on reducing the debt.
President Donald Trump greets attendees as he walks on stage on the first day of the Republican National Convention at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas, on Sept. 9, 2026.(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Other Republicans and Trump allies are moving in the opposite direction.
Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, said he would prepare legislation to pass the dividend after the election, while Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., asked voters how they would spend their $5,000.
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The reactions show a Republican Party split between treating tariff revenue as money to return to Americans and preserving the party’s traditional emphasis on lower taxes, limited spending and less government dependence.
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