Key Highlights
- service members would receive a one-time $1,776 "warrior dividend," a $2.6 billion initiative he said would hit service members’ bank accounts before Christmas.
- The president credited tariffs for bringing in money.
- "We made a lot more money than anybody thought because of tariffs, and the bill helped us along.
- Nobody deserves it more than our military, and I say congratulations to everybody," Trump said Wednesday.
- A senior administration official told Fox News Digital the president had directed Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to offer the money as a one-time supplement to the basic allowance for housing for all active duty service members pay grades O-6 and below — colonel for the Army, Air Force and Marine Corps and captain rank in the Navy.
