La., signaled he was not a fan of a proposal to send Americans stimulus checks with the money saved by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and that he believed the funding was better directed toward the national debt.

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.

The CEO of investment firm Azoria lobbied DOGE figurehead Elon Musk to have the department issue stimulus checks from some of the claimed $55 billion in savings.