
When the White House makes a promise about distributing benefits to Americans, it’s hard to remove politics from the equation, regardless of who is president. So when President Donald Trump recently promised a $2,000 “dividend” for most Americans, analysts and journalists immediately began parsing out exactly what that meant, and why he said it.
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