‘Spoils Of Battle’: Elon Musk Drops DOGE Check Update, Slams Dems For ‘Lack Of Empathy’ Toward Hard Working Americans

Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk said Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that President Donald Trump is in support of checks to American taxpayers as the department continues to cut government waste, calling out Democrats over their “lack of empathy” toward taxpayers.

Musk made a surprise appearance on the CPAC stage Thursday afternoon, interviewed by Newsmax’s Robb Schmitt about his involvement with the Trump administration and the pushback from Democrats over the past month. Since finding billions of taxpayer dollars wasted throughout the federal government, investment firm CEO and DOGE adviser James Fishback introduced the idea of “DOGE dividend” checks in a post on X Tuesday, to which Musk responded that he would check with Trump about the idea.

“It’s money that’s taken away from things that are destructive to the country and from organizations that hate you,” Musk said. “I mean, that’s glorious. That’s like the spoils of battle, you know?”

“I talked to the president, and he’s supportive of that. So it sounds like that’s something we’re going to do. So as we’re finding savings, that’s going to translate directly to reductions in tax,” Musk added.

In a PDF version of Fishback’s proposal, the adviser wrote that the dividend would take “20% of DOGE’s total savings ($400 billion) and return it to the ~79 million U.S. households that will be net payers of federal income tax in CY 2025 as a tax-refund check.” According to the adviser, if the department were to meet their target total savings of $2 trillion, millions of taxpayers could receive a potential $5,000 refund per household, “with the remaining used to pay down the national debt.”