DOGE Stimulus Payment timeline: When could this dividend be approved?

In recent days, the possibility has gained strength and notoriety that some of the savings obtained by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) of the Trump istration, headed by Elon Musk, will be distributed among the population of the United States in the form of a stimulus or dividend.

Elon Musk's proposal and first steps

DOGE emerged as a proposal from Donald Trump's presidential campaign and became a reality when the former president returned to the Oval Office of the White House for a second term. He immediately appointed fellow businessman Elon Musk as its head, with the sole purpose of 'slimming down' the federal bureaucracy through cuts that would provide considerable savings for the Trump istration.

The cuts were not long in coming and the mathematics began to bear fruit, in the midst of a strategy that publicly manages the stratospheric figure of 2 trillion dollars in savings, so there were immediately voices that proposed that these resources be made available to the population.

One of them was economist James Fishback, CEO of Azoria, who sent a message on his X that made a monumental echo: "American taxpayers deserve a 'DOGE dividend': 20% of the money DOGE saves should be sent back to hard-working Americans as a tax refund check (...) With $2 trillion in DOGE savings and 78 million tax-paying households, this is a $5,000 refund per household, and the rest is used to pay down the national debt. @ElonMusk, let's do it! This is how we rebuild trust in our government."

James Fishback is on an 'optimistic' media tour

Well, Fishback has reportedly already met with Musk and also with lawmakers, and in fact in an interview with the New York Post, he claimed that a bill would be introduced very soon related to a 'DOGE check'. Of course, there are those who doubt Fishback's claims, but many media outlets have picked up and amplified them.

Recently, on March 4, NewsNation's Blake Burman interviewed Fishback, who said: "I'm optimistic that a bill will be introduced to make President Trump's vision of DOGE into law. It's not enough to identify waste, fraud and abuse. We have to give back to the taxpayer the money they worked so hard to earn when their money was wasted and misused, and that's what the DOGE dividend demands."

This stimulus, which has been questioned for its economic impact on inflation and the national debt, would benefit 79 million U.S. households with a $5,000 check, which would come from that 20% of the $2 trillion that DOGE estimates would be saved by reducing bureaucracy.

When would the DOGE dividend be approved?

The truth is that there is no likely date for the DOGE dividend to become a reality, as there is no urgency to a bill to facilitate it. In fact, DOGE sets July 2026 as an important date in its timeline to take stock

In addition, the proposed bill still has to go through a long legislative process, requiring approval by the House of Representatives and the Senate, so resistance and many obstacles are expected, as well as extensive negotiations

In summary, there is still no indication that Americans will receive a check for DOGE savings, not yet.