Rep. Jasmine Crockett expressed her lack of support for the DOGE dividend, questioning the impact of an extra $5000. It seems she believes it means little to her personally. In response, I've been blocked.
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@CollinRugg - Collin Rugg
NEW: Rep. Jasmine Crockett says she does *not* support the DOGE dividend, says she doesn't know what an extra $5000 is going "to do for you."
They're falling right into the trap. Remarkable.
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Trump is lying about wanting to give savings back to Americans as a dividend. He had nothing to do with the $1,200 refunds during COVID; that was done by a Democratic house and senate. Now, they'll claim they want to give refunds, but Congress won't allow it because there's no money. Those refunds happened during a unique time, a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic.
However, with Ebola detected in New York and the disregard for scientists, experts, vaccines, and medicine, we risk facing multiple future pandemics due to incompetence. We aren't in the business of giving out money, and I doubt $5,000 would make a significant difference anyway.
Speaker 0: President Trump says he likes the idea of giving some of the savings from Doge back to Americans as kind of a dividend. Would you support that? Listen. He's just telling a lie. He's not the one that had anything to do with the $1,200 refunds that people had during the midst of COVID that was done by a Democratic house and Democratic senate.
Right now, what they're going to do is say, hey. We want to give you a refund, but congress won't let us because they already know that there's just no money for that. The only reason that those refunds came before was because we were living in different times. This was a time in which hopefully we won't ever go through again. We had a once in a lifetime pandemic.
The bad part is that I don't know if it's once in a lifetime because we know that Ebola, unfortunately, was detected right here in New York, here recently. And if we continue down this road of getting rid of scientists or deciding that we don't want to rely on experts as it relates to what they're telling us to do, or we don't want to deal with vaccines and medicine in this country, then we may be facing not only our next pandemic, but our next two, three, or four pandemics because of their incompetence. So no, we are not in the business of giving out money. And honestly, I don't know what $5,000 will do for you.
