A suggestion gathering steam on social media calls for DOGE savings to be sent to taxpayers via stimulus checks. President Trump said he's considering giving 20% of DOGE savings to American citizens. The IRS is sending out 1 million stimulus checks to those who didn't claim their Recovery Rebate Credit during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Pure math makes it unlikely that taxpayers will see any stimulus check, let alone an amount of consequence. Whatever Musk can cut via his DOGE buzzsaw, and that’s debatable, Republicans will want nearly all of that for planned tax cuts. Nonetheless, Trump kept hope alive.

President Trump backed an idea pitched to Elon Musk of sending checks of up to $5,000 to Americans if DOGE is able to cut federal government costs.