Trump's Closing Offer: $5,000 Checks for Every American Adult if Republicans Keep Congress
In his Election Eve speech at the Reflecting Pool, the president put a specific number on keeping Republican majorities - a pledge the Wall Street Journal recorded, and one Tallahassee voters will carry into the polls on Tuesday.
President Donald Trump promised $5,000 checks to every American adult if Republicans keep control of Congress, the Wall Street Journal reported from his Election Eve speech at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Monday. The pledge was the most specific offer in a closing argument that returned to the themes of his final campaign sprint: he described Democrats as radicals, urged voters to support Republicans on Tuesday, and highlighted what he described as foreign-policy achievements in Venezuela and Greenland.
He said crime was falling thanks to his administration, particularly in Washington, D.C., and pointed to tax legislation passed during his administration. "This is the golden age of America," he said as he touted Republican accomplishments like renewing tax cuts and tightened border security, the Journal reported. The speech itself - part renovation showcase, part closing argument - is covered in full in this station's earlier file; the $5,000 figure is the new element, and no mechanism, funding source or timeline for the checks accompanied it in the reporting read by the Politics Desk.
A promise of that size lands differently depending on how Tuesday goes: it is payable, in the president's own framing, only if his party holds both chambers. For Leon County voters, it becomes one more consideration on a ballot that also picks Tallahassee's mayor and City Commission - polls are open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday at assigned polling places.
