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Trump’s $90 Payments Are on the Way to 20 Million Seniors
The White House said the one-time payments will offset October Medicare premiums and reach fewer than a third of Medicare enrollees.
- On October 8, the Trump administration issued $90 payments to 20 million Medicare Part B enrollees via direct deposit and 875,000 mailed checks, excluding seniors covered by Medicaid or subject to income-related adjustments.
- President Trump is financing the payouts by diverting revenue from the $2 billion Medicare Improvement Fund, which Congress established in 2008 to improve Medicare services rather than for direct beneficiary payouts.
- California leads the senior payment distribution with 1.52 million recipients, followed by Texas and Florida ; the administration simultaneously sent $500 checks to nearly 1 million Americans across 30 states citing alleged ACA exchange overcharges.
- Democratic Sen. Roy Wyden of Oregon, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, denounced the payouts as "another desperate attempt by a failed president to escape Americans' revulsion with his failed agenda," citing the election timing.
- Trump has promised to distribute $5,000 dividend checks to all American adults if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate, though critics argue current disbursements function as political campaign tools.
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