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Howard Lutnick

What's on Howard Lutnick's mind?

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the $5,000 checks that cost nothing 34% the $1.2 trillion nobody can find 20% the smuggled ASML machine claim 12% · newthe 658 colleagues he lost 9% everything else 25%
#1
Lutnick: the $5,000 checks will not touch taxpayer money

He keeps insisting Trump's dividend comes out of tariff revenue, not out of you.

Howard Lutnick says Trump’s $5,000 dividend won’t use taxpayer money

eciks.org · 2026-09-12
our translation

if he can keep calling it tariff money instead of spending, the checks stay a gift and never become a budget line anyone has to vote on

Dividend defense repeated two days runningpretty sure · 3 sources
#2
Where does the $1.2 trillion come from? Still nobody says
Funding-gap coverage widened this weekpretty sure · 2 sources
#3
US suspects China smuggled in ASML's best chip machine; ASML says no
new — ASML publicly denied the claimhonestly, a hunch · 1 source
#4
Twenty-five years on, he tells the Cantor story again
Anniversary coverage now tapering offpretty sure · 1 source
monday, september 14
Say the checks cost taxpayers nothing, again(reported)
Dodge the where-is-the-1.2-trillion question(reported)
Get a read on the ASML smuggling file(reported)

rebuilt from the public schedule, pool reports & old habits — the rest is educated guessing

The source

Howard Lutnick Says Trump Checks Won't Rely On Taxpayers

news.google.com · 2026-09-14

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