Trump promised every adult $5,000 if Republicans kept control of Congress. Thanks to the Blue Tsunami, taxpayers won’t have to blow up the debt

Democrats will take full control of Congress in January after winning both the House and the Senate on Tuesday night, NBC News projected. Republicans had entered Election Day with a 53-47 Senate majority and a 219-214 House majority.

It will be the first time in Trump’s second term that he hasn’t had full control of Congress. Since returning to the White House, he has dismantled federal agencies through the Department of Government Efficiency, imposed sweeping tariffs on his own authority and rescinded funding Congress had approved, while the Republican-controlled House and Senate mostly looked the other way, NBC reported.

Trump responded on Truth Social: “I wasn’t on the Ballot and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE!”

In his closing speech at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Monday, Trump said he had kept every promise he made, then added: “I’ve actually kept far more promises than I made,” the Mirror reported.

One of those promises was cash. At the GOP’s midterm convention in Dallas in September, he told the crowd, “If the Republicans win, you win with us and you get $5,000.” In an October Truth Social video, he said he would give $5,000 to “all Adult Citizens” if Republicans won both chambers. He renewed the promise in his last speech before........

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