Congress woman Jasmine Crockett is accused of hypocrisy for rejecting the idea of distributing $ 5,000 doge checks to Americans if she has previously given some form of reparations.
Elon Musk, who runs the Ministry of Government Efficiency, has recently shown support for issuing doge dividends to taxpayers consisting of the $ 55 billion claimed to have saved the unofficial agency of reducing government waste.
James Fishback, the CEO of investment company Azoria, was the first to pick up the idea of giving 20 percent of all doge savings to Americans.
He said that if Musk is able to achieve his explained goal to cut $ 2 trillion to federal expenses, each of the approximately 79 million American taxpayers could get a check of $ 5,000.
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump said he is considering getting 20 percent of the money back from Doge to give Americans directly, while an additional 20 percent could go to paying the $ 36 trillion national debt.
With the potential approval of Trump of this plan, Crockett, 43, was asked if she thinks the redistribution of doge savings is a good idea.
“What they are going to do is say:” Hey, we want to give you a refund, but the congress will not let us because they already know that there is simply no money for that, “said Texas' Democrat.
“We are not spending money, and to be honest, I don't know what $ 5,000 will do for you if you can't find a job because I tell people, we are on our way to a recession,” she added.
Congress woman Jasmine Crockett, a Democrat from Texas, said she does not support the idea of redistributing 20 percent of the savings of cuts by the Ministry of Government Efficiency
Her comments came after President Donald Trump said he is considering sending doge checks to individual American taxpayers
Crockett was also deflected by suggesting that Trump had little to do with the $ 1,200 COVID-19 stimulus controls that were part of the Cares Act, a Bill Trump signed in the law on 27 March 2020.
Crockett's comments led to indignation on social media, with right -wing internet personality Nick Sortor who points out X that she has demanded 'for years' recovery rings' for descendants of American slaves.
“I'll have her checked. Jasmine knows that $ 5K will mean more for people than empty rhetoric of the DEMs, “one person replied to Sortor's Post.
“I don't know what $ 5,000 will do for you …” is clearly an elitist trash politician talk. $ 5,000 is absolutely changing life for most Americans, “wrote a different person.
Crockett has supported to study ways to possibly give reparations to black Americans.
In January 2023, days after she had been sworn in the congress, she joined 130 other Democrats at CoSponsor a bill that a committee would have established to develop recovery proposals.
In the same year, Crockett refused to register with a largely symbolic bill that was introduced by the former Democratic representative Cori Bush who would have officially stated that the United States have a 'moral and legal obligation' to offer repairs.
On a podcast performance in April 2024, Crockett gave the idea that black people should not pay taxes to compensate what their ancestors were going through as slaves.
If DIGE dividends were now sent, based on the $ 55 billion Musk claims were saved by eliminating fraud and canceling expensive contracts, Americans would get checks for just over $ 139
“One of the things they imagine is that black people don't have to pay taxes for a certain time because … that money puts in your pocket,” she said in an episode of the podcast of Black Lawyers.
“If you do the non-tax thing for people who already, say, struggle and do not really pay taxes in the first place, it doesn't really matter,” she added. “This is something that should certainly be conceived.”
If doge dividends were now sent, based on the $ 55 billion Musk claims were saved by eliminating fraud and canceling expensive contracts, Americans would get checks for just over $ 139.
The largest cuts that DOGE has made so far comes from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
