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JUST IN: U.S. Service Members Will Receive $1776 ‘Warrior Dividend’ For Christmas, Trump Says
President Donald Trump announced during his White House address Wednesday night that all U.S. service members will be receiving a $1776 “warrior dividend” for Christmas.
“Military service members will receive a special … warrior dividend before Christmas,” Trump announced while speaking in front of a festive, Christmas-themed background. “A warrior dividend in honor of our nation’s founding in 1776, we are sending every soldier $1,776.”
The president added that the checks are already on the way. “Think of that. And the checks are already on the way. Nobody understood that one until about 30 minutes ago. We made a lot more money,” he said.
Trump also touted the passage of the “Big Beautiful Bill” spending package, which codified his 2017 tax cuts, among other things.
“Next year, you will also see the results of the largest tax cuts in American history that were really accomplished through our great, big, beautiful bill, perhaps the most sweeping legislation ever passed in Congress. We wrapped 12 different bills up into one beautiful bill. That includes no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security for our great seniors,” the president said.
“Under these cuts, many families will be saving between $11 ,000 and $20 ,000 a year, and next spring is projected to be the largest tax refund season of all time.”
The speech almost entirely focused on domestic matters, with a heavy focus on economic messaging. “Already, I’ve secured a record -breaking $18 trillion of investment into the United States, which means jobs, wage increases, growth, factory openings, and far greater national security. Much of this success has been accomplished by tariffs. My favorite word, tariffs, which for many decades have been used successfully by other countries against us,” the president said elsewhere in the speech.
“But not anymore. Companies know that if they build in America, there are no tariffs. And that’s why they’re coming home to the USA in record numbers. They’re building factories and plants at levels we haven’t seen. AI. Automobiles were doing what nobody thought was even possible, not even remotely possible. We were absolutely dead. Our country was ready to fail. Totally failed. Now, we’re the hottest country anywhere in the world. And that’s said by every single leader that I’ve spoken to over the last five months.”
Trump placed particular emphasis on laying out an agenda to bring down healthcare costs, an issue that is projected to be of massive concern in next year’s midterm elections. Democrats have hinted that they could shut the government down once again next month if they fail to receive an extension of pandemic-era Affordable Care Act (ACA), which are set to expire under the terms of their own budget reconciliation passed under former President Joe Biden.
“I’m also taking on the gigantic health insurance companies that have gotten rich on billions of dollars of money that should go directly to the people. The money should go to the people. That’s you. So they can buy their own health insurance, which will give far better benefits at much lower cost,” the president declared.
“It will be far better health insurance. The current Unaffordable Care Act was created to make insurance companies rich. It was bad health care at much too high a cost. And you see that now in the steep increase in premiums being demanded by the Democrats. And they are demanding those increases,” he continued.
“And it’s their fault. It is not the Republicans’ fault. It’s the Democrats’ fault. It’s the Unaffordable Care Act, and everybody knew it. Again, I want the money to go directly to the people so you can buy your own health care. You’ll get much better health care at a much lower price. The only losers will be insurance companies that have gotten rich, and the Democrat Party, which is totally controlled by those same insurance companies. They will not be happy, but that’s okay with me because you, the people, are finally going to be getting great health care at a lower cost.”
