A full-text search of bills published on GovInfo, the official publisher of congressional bills, from 19 September to 2 November 2026 finds no bill or joint resolution with a $5,000 payment to individuals introduced between 19 September and 13 October; congress.gov itself was behind a bot check.
Hunch. A bill needs no gatekeeper in the House, but the chamber left to campaign on 18 September and the money behind the promise is being refunded to importers under the Supreme Court ruling.
The bill market resolves on congress.gov. YES if a bill or joint resolution introduced in either chamber between 19 September and 13 October 2026 carries a payment of $5,000 to individuals; the number of co-sponsors and the chance of a vote do not matter. A bill naming a different sum resolves NO. If congress.gov is not updated in time, reports in two of the BBC, the Guardian and Reuters settle it.
We found eight such promises between 2020 and 2025. We looked for times when a US president announced a direct cash payment but did not say, on the day, how it would work or where the money would come from. We then checked whether a first official plan followed within thirty-three days. That means a signed order or memo, a published Treasury or budget office plan, or a bill with that sum. A minister describing an idea on television does not count. The newest cases come first.