Elon Musk, the face of the Department of Governmental Efficiency, dodged questions about a potential DOGE stimulus check during a rally in Wisconsin Sunday.
The billionaire and Tesla CEO ceded that any stimulus from DOGE's dubious savings would have to go through a congressional vote.
"It's somewhat up to Congress and maybe the president to, you know, as to whether specific checks are cut," Musk said.
Musk said that Americans would feel the impact of the broad and deep cuts his team is making in the form of relief from inflation.
"As government spending is made more efficient and spending is reduced, the tax by inflation is reduced," Musk said.
The February core Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index, one of the Federal Reserve's inflation measures, came in higher than expected Friday.
How did the idea of a DOGE stimulus start?
President Donald Trump said that he was considering an idea first proposed by an investment firm CEO to issue stimulus checks to Americans DOGE in February.
"We're considering giving 20% of the DOGE savings to American citizens and 20% to paying down the debt," Trump said in a tangent during the Saudi-sponsored FII PRIORITY Summit in Miami Beach.
The pronouncement came on the same day as reporting from USA TODAY showed that DOGE's website published misleading information on the amount of money it has claimed to save, including a nearly $8 billion error.
Stimulus payments from DOGE savings were floated by Azoria investment firm CEO James Fishback, who lobbied on X for Musk to issue a stimulus check based on the claimed savings. Others on the platform and TikTok echoed the sentiment, with one video claiming, on dubious factual grounds, that taxpayers could get as much as $8,000.
Musk responded to Fishback's post, saying, "Will check with the President."
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Elon Musk was asked about DOGE stimulus checks: Here's what he said