# Devolution Power Hour Ep. 491: The $5,000 Tariff Dividend Pitch

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Podcast: [Badlands Media](https://stenobird.com/podcast/badlands-media-5934327)
Published: 2026-09-10T05:37:37+00:00
Episode link: https://badlandsmedia.podbean.com/e/devolution-power-hour-ep-491-the-5000-tariff-dividend-pitch/
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## Resource

Jon Herold and Burning Bright work through the news of Trump floating a five thousand dollar per adult tariff dividend tied to Republicans keeping the House, and dig into the interview clips defending it against the obvious bankrupting the country criticisms. They also chase down a chapter eleven reference from a viewer that turns into a bit of a scavenger hunt through the clip archive. There's a mix of lighter material too, including a photo ID mix up joke involving two cabinet officials and an Elon Musk clip revisited for context, before things circle back to bigger picture debt and deficit numbers and what thirty years of compounding debt actually looks like on paper. As always, the hosts bounce between playing clips, cracking jokes, and genuinely trying to work out whether the economic case being made actually holds up.

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