Trump brushes off question about handing out cash before election

The Hill - Oct 7, 2026

President Trump dismissed a question Wednesday about his administration sending money to Americans ahead of the midterms, choosing instead to tout his tariffs. “What we’re doing is we have tremendous growth. We have the greatest growth of any country, maybe ever in history,” the president said in the Oval Office, when the Independent’s Andrew Feinberg...

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