“The more the government saves with DOGE, the bigger their DOGE dividend check is. The DOGE dividend re-incentivizes the taxpayer to be on board with fiscal responsibility and cost savings but also incentivizes them to report it themselves,” he added.
Potential Savings and Expected Payouts
Fishback outlined the potential scale of savings on The David Lin Report, projecting that DOGE could generate $2 trillion in reductions over the next two years. Under the proposal, 20 percent of these savings—$400 billion—would be allocated for direct payments to taxpayers.
“There are roughly 80 million taxpaying households in America. So, if you then go $400 billion divided by 80 million, you end up with a check of roughly $5,000 to each taxpaying household. That’s what we think we can get to,” Fishback explained.
However, he stressed that these figures are not set in stone.
“This plan is not predestined to the $5,000 number. If the savings come in above or below that, the check will be reflected accordingly. If the savings are only $1 trillion, the check goes from $5,000 to $2,500. If the savings are only $500 billion, then the check is around $1,250.”
Public Engagement and Legislative Challenges
The DOGE Dividend plan is structured to encourage public engagement by offering financial incentives for taxpayers to report government inefficiencies. “It incentivizes millions of Americans to report waste in government spending that they themselves see. Why would they do that? Because they have every incentive to do it,” Fishback stated.
