<p>House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has tamped down expectations for sending out so-called &#8220;DOGE stimulus checks&#8221; to United States citizens, an idea that President Donald Trump appears to be entertaining.</p>
<p>Johnson was <a href="https://x.com/ThomasSowell/status/1892690859549725136" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pressed</a> on the idea during a &#8220;fireside chat&#8221; with Newsmax anchor Rob Finnerty at the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in the Washington, D.C., area on Thursday.</p>
<p>&#8220;The president said that a percentage of DOGE savings could maybe go back to the American people in the form of what he called DOGE stimulus checks, something like 20%. How would that work?&#8221; Finnerty asked.</p>
<p>&#8220;I mean, politically, that would be great for us, you know. Send everybody a check, &#8230; but if you think about our core principles, fiscal responsibility is what we do as conservatives. That&#8217;s our brand,&#8221; Johnson said.</p>
<p>The speaker continued, &#8220;And we have a $36 trillion federal debt. We have a giant deficit that we&#8217;re contending with. I think we need to pay down the credit card. Right? I think that&#8217;s what we need to do.&#8221;</p>
<p>During a summit in Miami on Wednesday, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/just-getting-started-trump-dishes-on-doge-life-advice-and-tax-cuts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mentioned</a> the possibility of sending out some of the money freed up via the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) effort overseen by Elon Musk.</p>
<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s even under consideration a new concept where we give 20% of the DOGE savings to American citizens and 20% goes to paying debt because the numbers are incredible, Elon,&#8221; Trump said.</p>
<p>Earlier in the week, Musk <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1891967592048611532?s=46" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on his social media platform X that he would &#8220;check with&#8221; Trump in response to Azoria CEO James Fishback proposing a &#8220;DOGE Dividend&#8221; that comes in the form of a tax refund check.</p>
<p>Trump also said on Wednesday &#8220;we&#8217;re just getting started&#8221; after DOGE &#8220;saved&#8221; $55 billion in one month. He added later, &#8220;We will rapidly grow our economy by dramatically shrinking the federal government.&#8221;</p>
<p>Johnson <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-cracked-the-code-for-defeating-the-deep-state-speaker-johnson-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spoke</a> approvingly of Musk and his work seeking to reduce federal spending through DOGE during an interview with Mark Levin, host of &#8220;Life, Liberty, and Levin&#8221; on Fox News, that aired Saturday night.</p>
<p>&#8220;The oversight job has been hindered because the deep state and the bureaucracy has not turned over the data. They wouldn&#8217;t give us the information we were seeking. We didn&#8217;t know all this because it was hidden,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;Now Elon has cracked the code. He is on the inside of the belly of the beast, Mark,&#8221; Johnson added. &#8220;And he is unveiling and revealing all these things that we knew intuitively were happening but we didn&#8217;t have the evidence.&#8221;</p>
<p>The speaker then emphasized, &#8220;This is a game changer. It is truly revolutionary and we&#8217;re going to restore ultimately through this process the federal government to the original intent of the Founders.&#8221;</p>

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