Devika Bhat
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311 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 10 Sep
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Economists think this would cost well over $1 trillion,
no small amount even for the biggest economy in the world.
You know, the legal question is an interesting one because it's very clearly against federal law to offer payments in order to try to influence the way someone's going to vote in an election.
Yeah.
That's pretty clear.
But if Trump can and his team can sort of frame this as actually they have tried to in the past as a sort of general sort of economic pledge, you know, for all Americans, then it becomes a bit more tricky legally to challenge it.
You know, we did see Trump in the sort of when Doge, in the sort of heyday of Doge and Elon Musk trying to sort of supposedly eliminate waste in government spending.
Trump at one point promised that the profits from that would go to the American people via paychecks.
And that I think is still, we've never seen that actually transpire in reality.
So how this would work, there's little detail on that, but there would definitely be obstacles to come if he did try to implement this.
I mean, I think that's right.
I think, you know, as a sort of headline grabby point, Trump's hoping with a promise like this, he can alleviate some of the sort of economic pain that Americans are sort of feeling or at least have the promise that this could alleviate some of the pain.
The cost of living remains the kind of number one issue really
voting issue or the sort of polling sort of suggests that.
And it's probably the reason behind his plummeting popularity, because Americans don't feel better off than they did at the start of his presidency
time round.
So absolutely, I think this is totally designed to appeal to that crowd.
But as you say, in real terms, in real economic terms, that's no small sum.
And it would have a knock on effect, experts kind of say, undoubtedly on the national debt, on the budget deficit.
could have an impact on inflation although it's hard to measure exactly what that would be and that is definitely something he wouldn't want to see so again it feels like as things stand it's a bit of a promise a bit of a kind of sop to the MAGA faithful who are inclined to believe what Trump says and who may be being hit hard by the cost of living crisis in particular but whether it would actually work in practical real terms in the long run is is a very open question.
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