WashingtonTrump plans to send $90 to more than 20 million seniors.
The payments land weeks before the November midterms, the latest in a series of pre-election handouts.
The White House is drawing on the $2 billion Medicare Improvement Fund, which Congress created in 2008 and which it says was never used.
Medicaid-covered enrollees and those paying an income-related surcharge are excluded, the White House said.
Trump also promises $5,000 dividends to every American adult if Republicans keep Congress.
How each outlet framed it
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- USA Today
- maps swing-state concentration (MI 539k, GA 568k, NC 644k, OH 748k) in $90 checks before midterms
- Breitbart
- reproduces Trump's characterization of fund as 'Slush Fund' for Democratic 'Waste, Fraud, Abuse' driving costs