According to The Washington Post, the Trump administration is pushing the Internal Revenue Service to revoke Harvard University’s tax-exempt status.
The Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/16/trump-harvard-tax-exempt-irs/">reported</a> that three sources informed the outlet that President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration had asked the IRS to make the move, although there is no confirmation that it has done so. WaPo also reported that its sources claimed Andrew De Mello, the IRS’s acting chief counsel, was asked by the Treasury Department to take the action. Sources also claimed this is part of a feud with Ivy League schools that the Trump administration views as &#8220;woke.&#8221;
“I think they’re going to go after a whole bunch of them,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) said. “I’m not sure why we need to be funding people who aggressively refuse to give up a variety of values and structures that most Americans don’t agree with.”
On Tuesday. President Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114342374504628520">posted</a> on Truth Social, “Perhaps Harvard should lose its Tax Exempt Status and be Taxed as a Political Entity if it keeps pushing political, ideological, and terrorist inspired/supporting ‘Sickness?’ Remember, Tax Exempt Status is totally contingent on acting in the PUBLIC INTEREST!”
White House spokesperson Harrison Fields stated: &#8220;Any forthcoming actions by the IRS will be conducted independently of the president, and investigations into any institution’s violations of its tax status were initiated prior to the president’s TRUTH.”
In January 2024, Rep. Jason T. Smith (R-MO), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/10/jason-smith-harvard-mit-penn-might-not-deserve-tax-exemption-00134815" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suggested</a> that the responses of Harvard, Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania, and MIT to the antisemitism on their campuses might justify revoking their tax-exempt status. The college’s actions “raise several questions, including whether your institutions are fulfilling their educational purposes as required to receive 501c3 tax-exempt status &#8230;”
On Monday, the Trump administration’s Department of Education announced it would freeze $2.2 billion in multi-year grants and $60 million in multi-year contract value to Harvard University after the school said it would not comply with the Trump administration’s demand that the university <a href="https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2025/04/Harvard-Response-2025-04-14.pdf">claimed</a> would “invade university freedoms.”
Last Friday, the Departments of Education and Health and Human Services sent a <a href="https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2025/04/Letter-Sent-to-Harvard-2025-04-11.pdf">letter</a> to Harvard in which they stated, “By August 2025, the University must adopt and implement merit-based hiring policies, and cease all preferences based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin …” adding that the same attitude must prevail in admissions policies. The correspondence also declared that by the same date, the university must “prevent admitting students hostile to the American values and institutions inscribed in the American Constitution and Declaration of Independence, including students supportive of terrorism and anti-Semitism.”
The university “shall commission an external party … to audit the student body, faculty and leadership for viewpoint diversity” by August 2025, the letter continued, in order to ensure that the leftist perspective that dominates the university should be contrasted with other viewpoints.
Alan Garber, the president of Harvard University, responded with a <a href="https://www.harvard.edu/president/news/2025/the-promise-of-american-higher-education/">statement</a> in which he said, “We have informed the administration through our legal counsel that we will not accept their proposed agreement,” contending, “The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights” and claiming the administration’s demands violated “Harvard’s First Amendment rights … threatens our values as a private institution devoted to the pursuit, production, and dissemination of knowledge.”

Harvard University

Trump Admin Wants IRS To Quash Harvard’s Tax-Exempt Status: Report

Donald Trump

Education

Harvard

Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

Politics

Taxes

Washington Post

Wokeness

Around 22,000 Internal Revenue Service employees have accepted President Donald Trump&#8217;s latest buyout offer, calling it quits at the service responsible for collecting taxes, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/us/politics/irs-resignations-trump.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on Tuesday.
The IRS turnover marks a dramatic shift from the Biden administration, when the IRS staff was beefed up to around 100,000 employees. The IRS cuts have reportedly forced the service to drop the number of audits it&#8217;s able to perform this year and could cause issues for Americans who call the IRS for help with their tax filings. A spokesman for Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that the secretary remains &#8220;committed to ensuring that efficiency is realized while providing the collections, privacy and customer service the American people deserve,&#8221; the Times reported.
Shortly after Trump took office in January, his administration offered federal employees the chance to quit their work while remaining on the payroll through September, and around 75,000 federal workers accepted the offer. Earlier this month, a second buyout offer went out to some federal workers, extending the deadline for employees who did not jump on the first offer, Axios <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/04/02/federal-worker-buyouts-trump-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Acceptance deadlines on the second offer ranged from April 7 to April 18, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/02/deferred-resignation-trump-federal-workers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a>.
In addition to the resignations at the IRS, around 7,000 probationary workers were fired by the Trump administration, but those firings have been challenged in court. If the firings go through, the IRS could lose up to one-third of the workforce with which it entered the year. The losses also include senior leadership at the IRS, such as Melanie Krause, the acting IRS commissioner who announced her resignation last week.
Some, such as Virginia Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger, have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virginia-democrat-picks-the-wrong-tax-day-to-praise-the-irs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lamented</a> the IRS staff cuts. In a post on X, Spanberger argued that the cuts are &#8220;making it harder for people across the Commonwealth to get the help they need.&#8221; Under former President Joe Biden&#8217;s Inflation Reduction Act, the IRS was given a massive increase in funding and had the green light to hire 87,000 new employees over the next decade.
As IRS employees jump ship, President Trump is hoping to revamp the government&#8217;s &#8220;outdated paper-based payment systems.&#8221; Last month, Trump signed an <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/03/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-modernizes-payments-to-and-from-americas-bank-account/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">executive order</a> &#8220;to modernize how the government handles money, switching from old-fashioned paper-based payments to fast, secure electronic payments.&#8221;
&#8220;President Trump is making government work better for the American people,&#8221; the White House stated.

TAX DAY MIRACLE: Over 20K IRS Employees Took Trump’s Second Buyout Offer

Executive

Trump Administration

Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) chose April 15 — better known to most American adults as Tax Day — to play defense for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and her efforts backfired in spectacular fashion.
Spanberger, who is currently facing Lieutenant Governor Winsome Sears (R-VA) in the 2025 gubernatorial race, took to X to post her &#8220;Happy Tax Day&#8221; message attacking President Donald Trump and his administration.
&#8220;Just a reminder that while Virginians are filing their taxes, the Trump administration is cutting IRS staff and making it harder for people across the Commonwealth to get the help they need,&#8221; she posted.
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Happy Tax Day.
Just a reminder that while Virginians are filing their taxes, the Trump Administration is cutting IRS staff and making it harder for people across the Commonwealth to get the help they need.<a href="https://t.co/mO2RBcBlB0">https://t.co/mO2RBcBlB0</a>
&mdash; Abigail Spanberger (@SpanbergerForVA) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpanbergerForVA/status/1912134139844657367?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Sears was among those who responded to Spanberger&#8217;s post, saying, &#8220;You just can’t make this up. Only a DC politician like @SpanbergerforVA would defend the IRS on Tax Day AFTER voting to hire 87,000 agents to wring every dollar out of you.&#8221;
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You just can’t make this up.
Only a DC politician like <a href="https://twitter.com/SpanbergerForVA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SpanbergerForVA</a> would defend the IRS on Tax Day AFTER voting to hire 87,000 agents to wring every dollar out of you. <a href="https://t.co/XSp3FRDEHk">https://t.co/XSp3FRDEHk</a>
&mdash; Winsome Earle-Sears (@winwithwinsome) <a href="https://twitter.com/winwithwinsome/status/1912140383967997972?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;We went to war to overthrow tyrants like you,&#8221; radio host Dana Loesch said, adding, &#8220;F every last shred of misplaced sympathy for extortionists who steal from the American public.&#8221;
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F every last shred of misplaced sympathy for extortionists who steal from the American public.
&mdash; Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) <a href="https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/1912165696827425134?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Twitchy&#8217;s PolitiBunny added, &#8220;Abi, are you seriously praising the IRS &#8230; on tax day? Jeezus, lol. ROFL. LMAOROFL. I&#8217;m taking a screenshot of this one, this is so bad. Wow.&#8221;
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Abi, are you seriously praising the IRS &#8230; on tax day? Jeezus, lol.
ROFL.
LMAOROFL.
I&#39;m taking a screenshot of this one, this is so bad. Wow. <a href="https://t.co/kfQKlcEHo6">https://t.co/kfQKlcEHo6</a>
&mdash; The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) <a href="https://twitter.com/PolitiBunny/status/1912142424349999211?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Just a reminder that Ronald Reagan once observed that: &#8216;Republicans celebrate the 4th of July, Independence Day. Democrats celebrate April 15, tax day,'&#8221; Newsmax writer Michael Dorstewitz posted.
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Just a reminder that Ronald Reagan once observed that:
&quot;Republicans celebrate the 4th of July, Independence Day. Democrats celebrate April 15, tax day.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/ITEED4qyi3">https://t.co/ITEED4qyi3</a>
&mdash; Michael Dorstewitz (@MikeDorstewitz) <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeDorstewitz/status/1912196712027894009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I’ve been filing taxes for 38 years and never once had a IRS staff member assist me, on, after, or prior to tax day,&#8221; another pointed out.
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I’ve been filing taxes for 38 years and never once had a IRS staff member assist me, on, after, or prior to tax day. <a href="https://t.co/uKafXOJx0d">https://t.co/uKafXOJx0d</a>
&mdash; Rob O&#39;Donnell (@odonnell_r) <a href="https://twitter.com/odonnell_r/status/1912184360054202875?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;How does the IRS staff help citizens of Virginia in need?&#8221; Scottie Nell Hughes asked. &#8220;The IRS doesn&#8217;t prepare or file taxes. It does target small businesses with expensive and time-wasting audits. I think you meant to say the Social Security Administration, but facts don&#8217;t matter as long as you are trying to demonize Trump, right?&#8221;
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How does the IRS staff help citizens of Virginia in need? The IRS doesn&#39;t prepare or file taxes. It does target small businesses with expensive and time-wasting audits. I think you meant to say the Social Security Administration, but facts don&#39;t matter as long as you are trying… <a href="https://t.co/calW1jbFJ3">https://t.co/calW1jbFJ3</a>
&mdash; Scottie Nell Hughes (@scottienhughes) <a href="https://twitter.com/scottienhughes/status/1912183662109503551?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I love it when Democrats are &#8216;on message,'&#8221; radio host Larry O&#8217;Connor said.
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I love it when Democrats are &quot;on message&quot; <a href="https://t.co/AZGbNgbo8y">https://t.co/AZGbNgbo8y</a>
&mdash; L A R R Y (@LarryOConnor) <a href="https://twitter.com/LarryOConnor/status/1912161088520478732?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Democrats: &#8216;How can we win back the working class?'&#8221; Doug Powers asked. &#8220;&#8216;Aggressively defend the IRS on tax day?&#8217; &#8216;Brilliant!'&#8221;
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Democrats: “How can we win back the working class?”
“Aggressively defend the IRS on tax day?”
“Brilliant!” <a href="https://t.co/d9mkMKqaRL">https://t.co/d9mkMKqaRL</a>
&mdash; Doug Powers (@ThePowersThatBe) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThePowersThatBe/status/1912146455973814518?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Virginia Gubernatorial Candidate Abigail Spanberger Speaks At An Everytown For Gun Safety Rally

Virginia Democrat Picks The Wrong [Tax] Day To Praise The IRS

Income tax

Winsome Sears

As a former member of the House Ways and Means Committee, the leading tax-writing body in Congress, I am encouraged to see the White House finally providing the legislative branch the support it needs to reform the Internal Revenue Service.
During a recent Ways and Means subcommittee hearing, Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) stated, &#8220;Taxpayers deserve an agency that keeps up with the times, operates efficiently, and acts as a responsible fiduciary of the American people&#8217;s money.&#8221; Unfortunately, for generations, they have received anything but this. Everyone knows that the IRS has been plagued by inefficiency, poor customer service, and outdated operational processes. It is no surprise that it remains one of the most unpopular federal agencies.
Under President Donald J. Trump&#8217;s leadership, real change is finally underway.
On March 25, he signed an executive order directing the IRS to modernize its payment processing — transitioning it away from slow, outdated mail-based methods and towards electronic payment processing. This long-overdue move will significantly benefit millions of Americans each year, reducing delays and improving agency efficiency.
More importantly, however, Trump is forcing the IRS to begin operating like a business, not a bureaucracy.
In January, he issued a hiring freeze on IRS employees, preventing the agency from filling new or vacant positions so that his administration can assess what is (and isn&#8217;t needed). The importance of this move can&#8217;t be overstated.
Before Trump took office, the IRS appeared to be undergoing an identity crisis, expanding beyond its intended role without first working out the kinks of delivering on its core mission (tax collection). Before it hires thousands more employees to further this misguided expansion, the administration is wisely insisting on a strategic reassessment.
A prime example of the IRS&#8217;s overreach is its recent attempt to enter the tax preparation business. Despite the existence of highly effective private-sector solutions, the IRS launched a pilot program in 2024. A Treasury Department Inspector General report from March 20, 2025, revealed serious flaws. For example, the Direct File program failed to allow taxpayers to claim key deductions, including the education tax credit — potentially costing some filers nearly $1,000 in overpayments.
The system also proved rather complicated to use, so only one-third of those who started a return through Direct File actually completed and filed an accepted one.
The cost of Direct File? A staggering $61 million once over 2.3 million use it, at least according to IRS estimates — though the Inspector General warns that actual costs may be even higher.
Why is the IRS expanding its reach into tax preparation while continuing to fail at its core responsibility — tax collection?
In 2022, the agency reported a tax gap — the difference between taxes owed and taxes collected — of $606 billion.
Despite receiving an $80 billion funding boost from the Inflation Reduction Act, the IRS has yet to show any real progress in closing this gap.
Maybe that is because, instead of focusing on its fundamental mission, it is diverting resources to unnecessary new initiatives that create more inefficiencies and confusion.
President Trump understands that before an organization expands, it must first perfect its primary function.
Successful businesses refine their operations before scaling; failing ones expand too early and collapse under their own inefficiencies. The IRS is behaving like the latter — a bloated bureaucracy that is overextending itself.
That&#8217;s why Trump&#8217;s IRS hiring freeze is so crucial. By pausing new hires, the administration is forcing the agency to reassess its priorities, eliminate waste, and become a leaner, more effective agency. This is common sense and deserves broad bipartisan support.
The Ways and Means Committee will undoubtedly back these necessary reforms, and for the sake of American taxpayers, the rest of Congress should do the same. The future of meaningful IRS modernization depends on it.
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Mike Bishop represented Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019, where he served on the Committee on Ways and Means.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Tax Day 2025: Why Trump’s Effort To Reign In The IRS Makes Sense

Federal Government

Opinion

President Trump

U.S. House of Representatives

Tech titan Nvidia makes a major investment in the United States – as President Donald Trump tweaks the terms of his tariffs. The Trump administration continues to pursue a nuclear deal with Iran after holding the first direct talks with the country in years. And, it&#8217;s April 15 – tax day. How would the “big, beautiful bill” affect taxes going forward?
It’s Tuesday, and this is the news you need to know to start your day. If you’d rather listen to your news, today’s edition of the Morning Wire podcast can be heard below:
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<h2>New Tariffs, New Factories</h2>
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Topline: President Trump announced new tariffs Monday, as tech giant Nvidia announced a historic investment in American chip manufacturing.
As we reported yesterday, the White House said it planned to offer tariff exemptions for certain tech imports like laptops and smartphones. But by Monday, the president announced that one crucial product — semiconductor chips — would not be exempt, and would instead be subject to their own tariffs. We’re still waiting to hear what sort of rate they’ll face, but it’s a big move — the United States imported nearly $850 billion worth of semiconductors last year.
In a major victory for the White House, tech giant Nvidia announced a half-trillion-dollar investment in American manufacturing. Over the next four years, the company will set up shop in Arizona and Texas – it has commissioned more than a million square feet of manufacturing space there. When production is complete, Nvidia says it will be able to construct supercomputers entirely in the United States. The company’s CEO said the investment would “strengthen our supply chain and boost our resiliency.”
“Nvidia controls almost that entire sector, which is one of the most important sectors in the world,” President Trump said at the White House on Monday in response to the announcement. “The reason they did it was because of the election on November 5th and because of a thing called tariffs.&#8221;
Trump also received good news from the Federal Reserve, which released its latest Survey of Consumer Expectations on Monday. It found that Americans believe inflation will rise in the coming months but expect it to be a short-term disruption. That’s important because consumer expectations of inflation can often become self-fulfilling as it changes what folks are willing to pay for certain products. Markets were seemingly pleased with Monday’s news, as the Dow, S&amp;P, and Nasdaq saw gains across the board.
<h2>U.S. &#8211; Iran Nuclear Talks</h2>
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Topline: The Trump administration had its first direct contact with Iran last weekend, the first step in an attempt to hammer out a new nuclear deal. President Trump is pushing for a full dismantling of Iran&#8217;s nuclear program. A follow-up meeting is set for this Saturday.
The meeting was the start of the first direct talks between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran in years. <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/04/12/us-iran-begin-nucearl-talks-begin-oman">Axios</a> is reporting that there was a 45-minute face-to-face conversation in Oman between U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.
“I think [a face-to-face meeting] helps to make sure that there is less room to cause confusion and also to drag out negotiations, which is what the Iranians are famous for doing,” <a href="https://www.iwf.org/people/ellie-cohanim/">Ellie Cohanim</a>, Independent Women’s Forum Senior Fellow and former Deputy Envoy to Combat Antisemitism under President Trump, told Morning Wire. “The very fact that the Iranians came to the table is considered an embarrassment in the Iranian culture because this is the regime that from 1979, from its very inception of coming into power, is born of the original sin of taking our American Embassy staff hostage …&#8217;Supreme Leader&#8217; Ali Khamenei apparently had to be convinced to even participate in talks with the United States. His advisors apparently let him know that they were advising him to participate in these talks because otherwise, it looked like there was a very high likelihood that Israel and the United States would strike Iran.”
Iran’s influence in the region has been steadily declining after a series of military and economic setbacks. Historically, Iran has used foreign proxy groups like Hamas, the Houthis, Hezbollah, and even the Assad regime of Syria to exert pressure on foreign enemies like Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the United States – arming and funding militants to create a thin veneer of separation between itself and open warfare. However, Hamas has taken tens of thousands of casualties in the ongoing war in Gaza, and Hezbollah’s command structure has been decimated by surgical Israeli strikes. Hezbollah fighters played a crucial role in propping up the Assad regime in the Syrian Civil War, and their collapse precipitated the ousting of the Assad government by Turkish-backed rebels – longtime Syrian dictator Bashar Al Assad <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/syrian-dictator-bashar-al-assad-deposed-as-terrorist-rebels-claim-damascus">fled to Moscow</a> last December. Houthi militants have also taken heavy losses in the wake of an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/united-states-launches-large-scale-attack-on-iran-backed-houthi-terrorists">American counterassault</a> to reopen shipping lanes in the Red Sea.
Meanwhile, Iran’s economy has suffered under Trump’s “maximum pressure campaign” of sanctions. The effort seems to have paid off. Cohanim told Morning Wire that the Iranian economy is “teetering … nearly on the verge of collapse. Their currency is just <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/irans-middle-class-bears-brunt-of-economic-crisis/a-72085209">practically valueless</a> right now.”
President Trump has made it clear that Iran must abandon its nuclear weapons program in order to reach a deal with the United States – <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/explainer-how-close-is-iran-having-nuclear-weapons-2024-04-18/">recent intelligence</a> suggests Iran has enough stockpiled fissile material to build two nuclear bombs, although progress on a delivery system for a hypothetical weapon is less certain. Iran and the United States previously negotiated a nuclear deal in 2015, but President Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-trump-just-shredded-iran-deal-here-are-5-ben-shapiro">withdrew</a> from it in 2018, arguing that the terms and enforcement mechanisms were too lax.
<h2>Tax Day!!!</h2>
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Topline: Today is one of Americans’ least favorite days – tax day. And this year, the eternal debate raging around taxes goes all the way to the top.
Friendly reminder – today is your last chance to file your taxes on time.
This tax season, Congress is furiously negotiating a “big, beautiful bill” to set the country’s fiscal priorities – the draft legislation put forward by Congressional Republicans would, among other things, make the tax cuts from President Trump’s first term permanent. Pete Sepp, President of the National Taxpayers Union, told Morning Wire that “virtually every American family would benefit” if the budget bill were passed.
“Any family with children under the age of 17 is likely to benefit,” Sepp told Morning Wire. “Any wage earner is likely to benefit by the lower rates that would remain locked in place. Any worker for a corporation is likely to benefit because they would see their wages at a stable level or even increasing because the boss would have the money to be able to provide that.&#8221;
Anyone who might want to pass along something to their heirs could.
If the bill isn’t passed, Americans will face around a $4 trillion tax hike. Opponents claim that the bill would benefit the rich without helping the poor – that’s been the mantra from Democrats – and part of their rationale for voting against the budget reconciliation last week. Of course, there could also be a predictable political angle to this – Democrats may want to jam up the vote to make the other side look incompetent.

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Trump pauses most tariffs — and sends the market soaring! While the market recovers, the Trump administration says it&#8217;s time to focus on tax cuts for everyday Americans. Will China hold out in its tariff war with Trump? We spoke to a supply chain expert about Beijing’s next move.
It’s Thursday, April 10, and this is the news you need to know to start your day. If you’d rather listen to your news, today’s edition of the Morning Wire podcast can be heard below:
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<h2>Trump Pauses Tariff Hike, Stock Market Skyrockets</h2>
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Topline: In a stunning development Wednesday, President Trump paused virtually all global tariffs, with the exception of China.
One week ago, the president enacted the largest tariffs in a century, and then on Wednesday, with a single social media post, he put nearly all of them on pause. Trump announced in a Truth Social post that effective immediately, there would be a 90-day pause on almost all tariffs — in the meantime, a flat 10% rate will go into effect.
Within five minutes of the announcement, trillions of dollars in value had been added to the markets. By the time markets closed, the Dow was up more than 2900 points – nearly 8%, and the S&amp;P skyrocketed almost 10% – that’s the largest one-day gain since 2008. The NASDAQ saw its biggest daily gain in nearly a quarter century, surging 12%. All told, the broad market index on Wall Street saw its third-largest gain since World War II.
However: While the vast majority of U.S. trading partners held off on retaliatory tariffs and sought a deal, China raised rates to 34% and then 84%. That seemed to outrage the president, who <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114309144289505174">said</a>, “Based on the lack of respect that China has shown to the World’s Markets, I am hereby raising the Tariff charged to China by the United States of America to 125%, effective immediately.” 
Last year, the U.S. imported <a href="https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html">$440 billion</a> of goods from China – American exports to China are only about a third of that figure, at around $144 billion.
“What China is doing will affect their economy much more than it will ours,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent <a href="https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1910031569919828230">said</a> on Wednesday. “This was [the president’s] strategy all along. You might even say he goaded China into a bad position. They responded. They have shown themselves to the world to be bad actors.&#8221;
Bessent went on to specifically note that Vietnam, India, South Korea, and Japan were all at the front of the line for negotiations –- those are all China’s biggest competitors in Asia. The move has led some analysis to conclude that the White House is sending a message to Beijing: make a deal now, or the US and the rest of the world will send their business elsewhere.
<h2>Trump’s Push For The “Big, Beautiful Bill”</h2>
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Topline: Amid the tariff fallout, the White House is working to make its economic case to Main Street Americans.
President Trump spoke about his plan to extend his 2017 tax cuts at the National Republican Congressional Committee dinner on Monday, urging Republicans to vote for a budget proposal he’s calling the “big, beautiful bill.” In addition to tax cuts, it would raise the debt ceiling and allocate more money for the Trump administration’s deportation efforts. Republicans are reportedly hoping to pass the bill by Memorial Day. House Speaker Mike Johnson canceled a planned vote on the Senate-approved budget blueprint on Wednesday night after a &#8220;subset&#8221; would not support it.
“For too long, financial policy has served large financial institutions at the expense of smaller ones. No more,” Secretary Bessent said in a speech to the American Bankers Association on Wednesday, outlining some of the president’s agenda. “This administration aims to give all banks the chance to succeed, whether it&#8217;s JP Morgan or your local mortgage and loan. It aims to get capital to Americans who need it by getting bureaucracy out of the way&#8230; It&#8217;s Main Street&#8217;s turn to hire workers. It&#8217;s Main Street&#8217;s turn to drive investment. And it&#8217;s Main Street&#8217;s turn to restore the American dream.”
In addition to this broader populist economic message, Bessent took the opportunity to address the health of the American economy and other campaign promises made by President Trump. “Our fiscal situation is a 350-pound, two-pack-a-day smoker on the ICU table, and he or she is not going to get off that table and run the Iron Man. We can&#8217;t [eliminate deficit spending] all at once, or that will cause a recession. What will keep us from having a recession is making sure that the tax bill doesn&#8217;t expire, adding back 100 percent depreciation and then adding some of President Trump&#8217;s agenda — no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime.”
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<h2>China Vs Trump</h2>
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Topline: Will China hold out in its tariff war with Trump? We talked to a supply chain expert about what Beijing might do next.
Morning Wire spoke to Jim Nelles, an expert supply chain consultant, about President Trump’s retaliatory tariffs toward China. Nelles just returned from a trip to China and has clients who do business with the communist nation – his assessment of their ability to weather an economic slugfest was rather grim.
“What people [in China] were saying off the record is that they&#8217;re extremely concerned with a tariff war with the United States,” Nells told Morning Wire.”Their manufacturing sector is not where it has been in the past. Some of the factories are running up between 40 and 60% capacity utilization, which is not good… a lot of my clients before Trump announced all the reciprocal tariffs, their Chinese suppliers were saying, “Hey, we&#8217;ll send you components to other places in Asia, and you can assemble the components there to avoid the Chinese tariff.” They&#8217;re doing everything they can to try to figure out how to get around these tariffs that are in place.”
Nelles also told Morning Wire that while he agrees that it was “a good time” for Trump to pressure China, he believes that the best outcome would be for “everyone [to] get rid of all the tariffs and all of the non-tariff trade restrictions, so that we can have what we all want, which is free and fair trade.”
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Turns out that it’s easy to make people move out of your state: Just raise taxes.
Recently, residents of high-tax states such as California, New York, Illinois, and New Jersey have been on the move. Specifically, they’ve been flocking to low-tax destinations such as Florida, Texas, North Carolina, Arizona, and Tennessee.
Between April 1, 2020, and June 30, 2023, high-tax states lost net 2.8 million residents to low-tax states. That’s more people than could be seated in all 30 NFL stadiums and 29 NBA arenas combined.
Zero-income tax Florida and Texas were the top two destinations for interstate movers, gaining 819,000 and 656,000 net residents respectively. Americans in the northeastern U.S. and the upper Midwest poured into Florida, while Texas was the destination of choice for many people living west of the Mississippi.
North Carolina (310,000), South Carolina (248,000), Arizona (218,000), and Tennessee (207,000) ranked third through sixth in net population gain from interstate migration. Each of them is a low-tax state (except South Carolina, which stands in the middle of the pack). Tennessee, like Florida and Texas, is one of the seven states with zero income tax.
It’s no coincidence that former Californians led the exodus out of high-tax states. California has the highest state income tax rate in the country at 13.3%, and it lost 1.2 million residents to interstate migration in a little more than three years.
Incredibly, California was the leading source of net domestic migration into every state within 1,000 miles of either Los Angeles or San Francisco.
The most popular destinations for Californians were Texas, Arizona, and Nevada. Texas and Nevada have no income tax, and Arizona has the lowest non-zero income tax rate.
New York state has the second highest income tax rate at 10.9%, and it had the second highest level of net outmigration during the roughly three-year period – a net loss of about 883,000 people. Counting both local and state taxes, nobody faces higher tax rates than do New York City residents.
Frank Sinatra once sang that if you could make it in New York, you could make it anywhere. These days, more and more people have been trying to make it somewhere else.
New Yorkers have been gravitating to greener pastures in Florida, Texas, and North Carolina. Low overall taxes and non-existent income tax play an important role in attracting New Yorkers to Florida and Texas (North Carolina is also among the lowest-tax states in the country).
Other New Yorkers fled to neighboring states like Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and New Jersey – states which have lower taxes than New York, but which certainly can’t be considered low-tax states.
Each of these states lost population to interstate migration overall, despite all the people flowing in from New York. In fact, New Jersey had the fourth highest population loss from interstate migration – about 153,000, behind only California, New York, and Illinois (364,000).
Other factors besides taxes also contribute to population flows. But the pattern of high-tax states losing residents to low-tax states is too strong to chalk up as a coincidence. The pattern holds year after year, between neighboring states, and across regions.
The pattern also holds across the income spectrum. Even low-income Americans (who may themselves pay a small amount of taxes) tend to move from high-tax states to low-tax states. If high taxes are supposed to pay for government services that improve the lives of low- and middle-income residents, well, it’s not working. 
The highest-income residents are especially sensitive to differences in tax rates, but that just shows why it’s so counterproductive for state lawmakers to try to soak the rich. Driving up tax rates drives out the people who pay the most in taxes.
State lawmakers eager to harvest more tax revenues must be careful lest they cause the geese with the golden eggs to fly away to somewhere they’re appreciated more and taxed less: states like Florida, Texas, North Carolina, Arizona, and Tennessee.
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Preston Brashers is a Research Fellow for <a href="https://www.heritage.org/taxes/report/if-you-tax-them-they-will-run-millions-americans-flee-california-and-new-york" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tax policy</a> in The Heritage Foundation’s Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget. Read his new report: <a href="https://www.heritage.org/sites/default/files/2025-03/BG3896.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;If You Tax Them, They Will Run: Millions of Americans Flee California And New York.&#8221;</a>
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) ridiculed Americans who dare to suggest that people should be allowed to keep what they earn, promising that government was there to stop them from doing so.
Schumer, who made an appearance Tuesday on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View,&#8221; spent much of the broadcast on his heels playing defense as the hosts grilled him over his last-minute support for the Republican-led Continuing Resolution that passed Friday and will fund the federal government through September.
During one segment, however, he paused to mock American conservatives and business owners who have the audacity to argue that they should be able to keep what they&#8217;ve earned and operate the businesses they&#8217;ve built in the way that they see fit.
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Dem Senate leader Chuck Schumer mocks Americans who want to keep their hard-earned income and praises the government as a &quot;barrier&quot; to them: &quot;You know what their attitude is, &#39;I made my money all by myself. How dare your government take my money from me?&#39; &#8230; They hate… <a href="https://t.co/vb4oDxPQ3V">pic.twitter.com/vb4oDxPQ3V</a>
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&#8220;You know what their attitude is?&#8221; Schumer asked, and then answered his own question in mocking tones: &#8220;&#8216;I made my money all by myself. How dare your government take my money from me? I don&#8217;t want to pay taxes.&#8217; Or, &#8216;I built my company with my bare hands. How dare your government tell me how I should treat my customers, my – the land and water that I own, or my employees?'&#8221;
&#8220;They hate government, government is a barrier to people. A barrier to stop them from doing things,&#8221; Schumer continued, raising his arms and shaking both fists. &#8220;They want to destroy it. We are not letting them do it, and we&#8217;re united!&#8221;
Despite Schumer&#8217;s claims, the Democratic Party has not appeared united of late. In the aftermath of Friday&#8217;s CR vote, a number of House Democrats and media personalities have come out and publicly criticized Schumer, arguing that he &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-think-you-caved-schumer-gets-an-absolute-grilling-on-the-view" target="_blank" rel="noopener">caved</a>&#8221; and suggesting that he might not be the right person to lead the Democrats in the Senate.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) led all but one Democrat in the lower chamber (Rep. Jared Golden of Maine) to vote against the CR, and while he is not normally one to be critical of Schumer, refused to answer when asked whether he believed Schumer was fit to continue leading in the Senate. &#8220;Next question,&#8221; was all he would say.

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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said this week that President Donald Trump&#8217;s goal is to significantly cut taxes across the board, and completely eliminate the federal income tax on Americans making under $150,000 annually &#8212; which could impact 93% of Americans.
Lutnick said the administration wants to have other nations chip in through tariffs and closing overseas tax loopholes so Americans can pay less in taxes. &#8220;His goal is to have external revenue,&#8221; Lutnick said of Trump, on CBS this past Wednesday.
&#8220;The rest of the world leans on our economy, breathes off our economy,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Not only is our economy $29 trillion GDP, but we consume $20 trillion a year &#8212; we are the buyers of everybody&#8217;s stuff. So, who&#8217;s more important, the people who sell stuff, or the people who buy stuff?&#8221;
&#8220;Let them pay a membership fee &#8212; we all understand that model,&#8221; Lutnick continued. &#8220;How about no tax on tips, how about no tax on overtime, how about no social security [tax]?&#8221;
&#8220;These are the kinds of things that will change America,&#8221; the secretary added. &#8220;I know what [Trump&#8217;s] goal is: no tax for anybody who makes less than $150,000 a year. That&#8217;s his goal.&#8221;
According to 2022 <a href="https://san.com/cc/lutnick-floats-trump-idea-of-no-income-tax-for-people-earning-less-than-150k/?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a>, about 93% of Americans earn less than $150,000 annually, with about 72 million households earning less than $150,000.
Back in January, Trump suggested axing federal income tax for all Americans. &#8220;We had no income tax &#8230; [until] 1913,&#8221; the president <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/trump-proposes-abolishment-federal-income-tax-bringing-us-back-richest-period-history?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at a conference in Florida. &#8220;Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich foreign nations, we should be tariffing and taxing foreign nations to enrich our citizens. Does that make sense? Right?&#8221;
&#8220;America&#8217;s gonna be very rich again and it&#8217;s gonna happen very quickly,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;It&#8217;s time for the United States to return to the system that made us richer and more powerful than ever before.&#8221;
During Trump&#8217;s joint address to Congress, he called for the elimination of taxes on tips, overtime pay, and Social Security benefits, which echoed Lutnick&#8217;s recent comments to CBS.
&#8220;We had tremendous success in our first term,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/remarks/2025/03/remarks-by-president-trump-in-joint-address-to-congress/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;We’re seeking permanent income tax cuts all across the board. And to get urgently needed relief to Americans hit especially hard by inflation, I’m calling for no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security benefits for our great seniors.&#8221;
Trump is currently negotiating tariffs with several nations including Canada, Mexico, China, and European nations.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-rips-democrats-for-behavior-during-address-these-people-are-sick" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trump Rips Democrats For Behavior During Address: ‘These People Are Sick’</a>

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Congressional Democrats — who were in attendance at President Donald Trump’s Joint Session of Congress on Tuesday — refused to applaud or stand up numerous times while Trump highlighted accomplishments in his second term that benefit Americans.
During Trump’s address, members of the Democratic party showed their TDS [Trump Derangement Syndrome] was strong, as they refused to stand up for things like a child brain cancer survivor, a rescued hostage, grieving families, the capture of the terrorist behind the Abbey Gate attack in Afghanistan, and so many more.
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“There is absolutely nothing I can say to make them happy or to make them stand or smile or applaud, nothing,” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_v_F0RSPmU">Trump said of the Democrats</a>, predicting their behavior early on during his speech. “It&#8217;s very sad, and it just shouldn&#8217;t be this way.&#8221;
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During a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQMKP2cSdIk">press briefing</a> on Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called the behavior of Democrats at the address “completely disgraceful” and said that “it demonstrated how severely out of touch they are with the American public.”
“Democrats didn’t stand to keep men out of women’s sports,” Leavitt said. “They couldn’t even clap for a girl [Payton McNabb] who got her head smashed in by a man on a volleyball court. Democrats didn’t stand for an innocent and beautiful child who is surviving brain cancer … they couldn’t even clap for a mother whose daughter was killed by illegal aliens.”
“One of the only things that could get Democrats off their feet last night was cheering for Ukraine,” she added. “Not for America.”
According to the White House, here’s a list of all the things Democrats refused to applaud/stand up for:
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<li style="font-weight: 400;">The <a href="https://whitehouse.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dace49741569f7585670378b3&amp;id=4b1e04fe7e&amp;e=8856375e10">capturing</a> of an ISIS terrorist that masterminded the Abbey Gate attack</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">A young boy <a href="https://whitehouse.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dace49741569f7585670378b3&amp;id=05ccd37b54&amp;e=8856375e10">fighting</a> brain cancer</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">A <a href="https://whitehouse.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dace49741569f7585670378b3&amp;id=ec097c3ab5&amp;e=8856375e10">call</a> to lower taxes for middle-class Americans</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Americans <a href="https://whitehouse.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dace49741569f7585670378b3&amp;id=3b855b3ec7&amp;e=8856375e10">joining</a> the military in record numbers</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://whitehouse.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dace49741569f7585670378b3&amp;id=c89daeaf89&amp;e=8856375e10">Law and order</a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Taking <a href="https://whitehouse.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dace49741569f7585670378b3&amp;id=3b6cb30f11&amp;e=8856375e10">down illegal revenge</a> porn</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://whitehouse.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dace49741569f7585670378b3&amp;id=e94f46ad9f&amp;e=8856375e10">Protecting</a> women’s sports</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://whitehouse.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dace49741569f7585670378b3&amp;id=14d2ced922&amp;e=8856375e10">Trump entering the chamber</a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://whitehouse.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dace49741569f7585670378b3&amp;id=fedc37d194&amp;e=8856375e10">Working together</a> to Make America Great Again</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Ending the harmful electric vehicle mandate</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://whitehouse.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dace49741569f7585670378b3&amp;id=dfa6de24d1&amp;e=8856375e10">Cutting regulations</a> to unleash American prosperity</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Ending censorship and bringing back free speech</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Ending discriminatory “diversity, equity, and inclusion”</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Recognizing only two sexes</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://whitehouse.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dace49741569f7585670378b3&amp;id=5fdc25f920&amp;e=8856375e10">Defeating inflation</a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://whitehouse.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dace49741569f7585670378b3&amp;id=0bd65582df&amp;e=8856375e10">Unleashing</a> American energy</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://whitehouse.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dace49741569f7585670378b3&amp;id=92c8b4ef6c&amp;e=8856375e10">Ending</a> waste, fraud, and abuse in government</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://whitehouse.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dace49741569f7585670378b3&amp;id=0ce90c35c2&amp;e=8856375e10">Ending taxes</a> on tips, overtime, and seniors’ Social Security benefits</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Bringing manufacturing home to America</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Securing historic investments in American chip manufacturing</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Removing illegal alien killers, rapists, and drug dealers from our streets</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Securing our border</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Designating the brutal Tren de Aragua gang as a foreign terrorist organization</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Waging war on the deadly cartels trafficking deadly drugs into our country</li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;">Protecting our kids from radical gender ideology</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Ending the sexual mutilation of America’s youth</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">The return of American Marc Fogel</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Declaring America’s youth are perfect as God made them</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Ending wokeness in the U.S. military</li>
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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 &#8220;dividend checks&#8221; 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.
&#8220;Sixty percent is left, who gets that?&#8221; the reporter asked.
&#8220;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&#8217;s budget, and then it just lowers the overall baseline for next year,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So, in other words, you can just transfer it into the next fiscal window and then lower the overall spending level.&#8221;
&#8220;And that means that you can achieve a permanent savings that way, and that reduces the deficit,&#8221; he added.
When asked when Americans might actually get those checks, Miller responded: &#8220;Well, this is all going to be worked on through the reconciliation process with Congress that&#8217;s going underway right now, as you&#8217;ve seen.&#8221;
&#8220;The Senate is moving a bill. The House is moving a bill,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The president has great confidence in both chambers to deliver on his priorities.&#8221;
&#8220;I would just take this opportunity to note that President Trump has made a historic commitment to the working class of this country to fight for a major tax relief and major price relief,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And cutting spending, as DOGE is doing, and cutting taxes is the key to delivering on both of those promises. And President Trump is resolutely committed to doing both.&#8221;
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Stephen Miller Addresses Talk About DOGE Checks Being Sent To Public

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President Donald Trump signaled on Wednesday that he would be open to a proposal mentioned by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk — a &#8220;dividend&#8221; paid directly to the taxpayers from the money saved by the Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project.
The conversation began with a proposal from Azoria Investment Firm CEO James Fishback, who floated the idea in an X post on Tuesday based on the plan for DOGE to target $2 trillion in total savings by July 2026.
Fishback suggested they take 2o% of that — $4 billion — and return it to the people via a &#8220;DOGE dividend&#8221; paid out to the approximately 79 million households who &#8220;will be net payers of federal income tax.&#8221;
Such a plan, Fishback said, &#8220;compensates American taxpayers for the egregious misuse and abuse of their hard-earned tax dollars that DOGE has uncovered&#8221; and &#8220;works to restore public trust between taxpayers and their government, making good on this social contract and increasing tax morale.&#8221;
Based on the sheer volume of waste DOGE is expected to uncover, Fishback argued it was the perfect time and opportunity for the federal government to &#8220;right the wrong&#8221; done to American taxpayers.
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Will check with the President
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1891967592048611532?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Musk responded to Fishback&#8217;s post, saying, &#8220;Will check with the President.&#8221;
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When asked about the possibility that his administration could move forward with such a plan, Trump seemed more than amenable to the idea.
&#8220;I love it!&#8221; Trump said to reporters. &#8220;A 20% dividend, so to speak, for the money that we&#8217;re saving by going after the waste and fraud and abuse and all the other things that are happening. I think it&#8217;s a great idea.&#8221;
When asked how much money he thought DOGE could potentially save, he shrugged. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know, it could be a lot. It&#8217;s 20%, it would give back a lot of money to the taxpayer.&#8221;
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PRESIDENT TRUMP: &quot;A 20% dividend, so to speak, for the money that we&#39;re saving by going after the waste and fraud and abuse &#8230; I think it&#39;s a great idea.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/CWXcKyBvZv">pic.twitter.com/CWXcKyBvZv</a>
&mdash; Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1892418061711409440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Trump Signals Support For Musk's 'DOGE Dividend,' Would Send Direct Payments To Taxpayers

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