Speaker Mike Johnson pushed back Thursday against an idea floated by President Donald Trump to reward U.S. taxpayers with DOGE stimulus checks. The time isn’t right, the speaker argued, to send savings from Elon Musk’s cost-cutting efforts back to Americans in the form of dividend checks.

A New York Times reporter capped off a discussion about the House budget bill by wondering how long Donald Trump would be saddled with Elon Musk. House Speaker Mike Johnson notched a legislative win late Tuesday with a framework for the "big,

Speaker Mike Johnson claimed Elon Musk instantly has broken the codes to government agency data with his algorithms which will comb through the data, deciding who lives and dies in the federal government.

The plan would see up to $5,000 sent to taxpayers if Elon Musk's DOGE reaches its goal of cutting $2 trillion in federal spending.

That marks a break from President Trump and tech billionaire and Trump adviser Elon Musk, who have floated the idea in recent days.

House Speaker Mike Johnson praised Elon Musk's DOGE campaign on Monday during an event hosted by "Americans For Prosperity." "For decades, as we all know, we haven't been able to do that job well. Even though we've requested data and insight,

"Politically, that would be great for us, you know, because everybody gets a check," Johnson said to the crowd. "But if you think about our core principles, right, fiscal responsibility is what we do as conservatives.

President Donald Trump had said earlier this week his administration was weighing sending 20% of savings by DOGE to taxpayers.

President Donald Trump will hold his first official Cabinet meeting today, with Elon Musk in attendance. This meeting comes amid the administration’s attempts to reshape the federal government and advance Trump’s agenda.

Trump and Musk keep talking up the idea of sending checks to Americans. But GOP lawmakers, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, keep batting it down.

Elon Musk drove another wedge through a conservative consensus on a budget resolution as House Speaker Mike Johnson struggled to hold his “big, beautiful bill” together. Johnson was caught between swing district doves wary of cuts to Medicaid and fiscal hawks insisting the $2 trillion spending cuts didn’t go far enough.