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President Trump opened the Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas with a $5,000 promise to
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Americans. Trump says every adult would get what he calls a dividend, but only if Republicans keep
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control of both the House and Senate in November. He didn't say how the payments would be funded or
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whether he would ask Congress to authorize them. Paying every American adult is estimated to cost
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more than $1 trillion. But he did put one other condition on the money
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But the only condition on the payment of this dividend that we're going to be making
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so it's $5,000 to every adult. The only caveat I have is that the dividend that we're making
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must be spent in the United States of America. We don't want you..
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We don't want you going to Canada to spend the money. We don't want you going to China, to Germany
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You got to spend the money in the United States of America. In other words, if the Republicans win, if you win, we might not win
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Trump also told supporters to vote in November as if he were on the ballot, saying, quote
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we're running together. And one of the night's more unexpected appearances came from a Democrat
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Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman appeared by video to introduce his Republican Senate colleague
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Dave McCormick. Vice President J.D. Vance is tonight's keynote speaker, with Trump set to return to close out the convention
