US PRESIDENT DONALD Trump has promised every American adult $5,000 if his Republican Party succeeds in keeping control of both houses in the upcoming midterm elections.

“So if the Republicans win, you win with us and you get $5,000 (€4,000). It will be called the Trump dividend,” Trump told Republicans in Texas, as the party struggles in polls against the Democrats.

Trump said this would be possible because of what he described as the country’s “tremendous strength and success economically”. 

“Only I can make this promise to you,” he said, adding that the Republicans would have to win both the House of Representatives and the Senate for the money to be paid out. 

.@POTUS announces the TRUMP DIVIDEND: If Republicans win both the House and the Senate, because of our tremendous economic success, I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States for $5,000 pic.twitter.com/s4orJJGx9d

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) September 10, 2026

He did not say where the money would come from, citing only that “our country is making so much money.”

The Associated Press estimated that delivering on the promise would likely cost more than $1 trillion (€858.22 billion). 

The proposed payments would also need congressional approval. 

Offering money to voters is something the Republicans tried during a Wisconsin Supreme Court election in 2025, when one of the party’s biggest donors, Elon Musk, gave cheques worth $1 million (€858,000) to two people who signed a petition opposing “activist judges”. 

The judge favoured by Musk ultimately lost that election.