How voters feel about Trump's $5,000 check promise

• The poll captures two potential obstacles for Trump's pitch: Likely voters narrowly oppose the checks, and most don't expect them to materialize.

By the numbers: Among likely voters, 45% oppose the $5,000 checks, while 43% favor them.

• The idea is most popular with voters under 30 and Republicans.
• Asked whether Trump would deliver the checks, 61% of likely voters said he wouldn't, compared with 22% who said he would.

Flashback: This isn't America's first rodeo with Trump's check promises.

• The president previously teased $5,000 dividend checks from DOGE savings and $2,000 tariff rebate checks. Neither materialized.

Zoom out: It's not clear how the checks would be approved or even whether Republicans have the will to make them a reality.

• Senate Republicans are doubtful the checks will happen, and Speaker Mike Johnson has suggested getting them through Congress could take time.

• Vice President Vance said that the checks could come through tariff revenue, while Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told NBC News that the checks could come from other payments made to the Trump administration, like the Trump Platinum Card program.

The fine print: YouGov interviewed 1,461 U.S. registered voters from Sept. 11 to 14, 2026. The results were weighted by demographics, region, past election turnout and vote, party identification and voter registration status. The survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.3 percentage points.