Katty Kay

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11,682 appearances 53 recordings 6 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 10 Sep

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The Rest Is Politics: US · 220. The Truth Behind Trump’s $5000 Midterm Bribe · 10 Sep 2026 podcast

So the cost of the tariff goes to the American people, but the benefits of the refund goes to the corporations. voice-verified

So it's interesting, I mean, uh a couple of things uh strike me. voice-verified

One, I I think I agree with you. voice-verified

There is not a good track record of Donald Trump making these promises, whether it's around healthcare subsidies ending, whether it's around tariff refunds, whether it's around doge payments, and then actually delivering on them. voice-verified

It did happen, of course, once, and that was during COVID, and in retrospect, quite a lot of analysis was done on the number of percent. voice-verified

Percentage points that those COVID checks that had Donald Trump's name on them and that he actually signed and were very popular after COVID. voice-verified

And obviously it was an economic crunch, and lots of people had lost their jobs, and we didn't know how long this was going to last for, and it was a crisis, and people got those $1,200 checks. voice-verified

And it did then, of course, produce a spike in inflation, which this administration and the Federal Reserve and Scott Besson are all now trying. voice-verified

to grapple with. voice-verified

And we can get to the kind of politics of why he does this and why he stood up there in Texas and said this. voice-verified

I mean, maybe it's because they've really got just not very many other cards to play. voice-verified

And so you try with a a blatant bribe and the kind of polling on this is interesting. voice-verified

We can get into that. voice-verified

But in your world, Ed, and you speak to people in the markets a lot and and kind of, you know, hardheaded investors on Wall Street. voice-verified

When they hear something like this, what do they make of it? voice-verified

Because I all the people I speak to tend to be kind of Republicans and Democrats in the political world. voice-verified

And I'm just wondering what people in the financial world, what investors make voice-verified

Of a statement like that, of a promise like that, that they know is not going to happen, but which is so countereffective in dealing with America's economic problems anyway. voice-verified

That's why I think this is an interesting thing that the president has done. voice-verified

Because okay, you might think five thousand dollars to every voter, it's not gonna happen. voice-verified

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