{"id":355360,"date":"2025-12-18T03:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T03:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/355360\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T03:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T03:36:07","slug":"watch-trump-promises-warrior-dividend-of-1776-for-u-s-military-service-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/355360\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Trump promises \u2018warrior dividend\u2019 of $1,776 for U.S. military service members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump said some 1.45 million U.S. military service members will receive a \u201cwarrior dividend\u201d of $1,776 before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Trump\u2019s remarks in the video player above.<\/p>\n<p>The president announced the checks during his address to the nation Wednesday, suggesting the money was made possible by tariffs.\u00a0 It\u2019s not clear how exactly the checks are being funded.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/watch-live-trump-addresses-the-nation-from-the-white-house\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WATCH: Trump addresses the nation from the White House | PBS News special coverage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn honor of our nation\u2019s founding in 1776, we are sending every soldier $1,776,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s prime-time speech was an opportunity for the president to praise his administration as Americans grow more concerned about prices and affordability.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/americans-are-more-dissatisfied-with-trumps-handling-of-the-economy-than-ever-poll-shows\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">latest PBS News\/NPR\/Marist poll<\/a> released Wednesday found a record low number of Americans approve of how he is handling the economy. Throughout his speech, Trump blamed his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, and Democratic policies for the country\u2019s problems seen this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI inherited a mess, and I\u2019m fixing it, \u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\n                    A free press is a cornerstone of a healthy democracy.\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"invite_body\">\n                    Support trusted journalism and civil dialogue.\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/give.newshour.org\/page\/88646\/donate\/1?ea.tracking.id=pbs_news_sept_2025_article&amp;supporter.appealCode=N2509AW1000100\" class=\"donation-link ga-click-funding ga-click-ender-funding\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                    Donate now<\/p>\n<p>                <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump said some 1.45 million U.S. military service members will receive a \u201cwarrior dividend\u201d of $1,776&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-355360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}