{"id":37858,"date":"2025-12-18T23:35:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T23:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/trumps-1776-warrior-dividend-repurposed-from-military-housing-aid\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T23:35:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T23:35:48","slug":"trumps-1776-warrior-dividend-repurposed-from-military-housing-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/trumps-1776-warrior-dividend-repurposed-from-military-housing-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s $1,776 \u2018warrior dividend\u2019 repurposed from military housing aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President claims bonus the result of tariff revenue but stipend had already been approved in tax-and-spend bill<\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> promised a one-time $1,776 payment for 1.45 million US military workers to mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence during a primetime TV address on Wednesday, he pointed to his favorite source of federal funding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of tariffs,\u201d the US president said, along with his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jul\/01\/what-is-in-big-beautiful-bill-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">massive tax-and-spending bill<\/a>, \u201cwe are sending every soldier $1,776 \u2013 and the checks are already on the way. Nobody deserves it more than our military.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/dec\/18\/trump-1776-military-checks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President claims bonus the result of tariff revenue but stipend had already been approved in tax-and-spend bill When Donald Trump promised a one-time $1,776 payment for 1.45 million US military workers to mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence during a primetime TV address on Wednesday, he pointed to his favorite source of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fast-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 19:53:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}