India, Feb. 23 -- There is an ongoing idea that a portion of the US government's savings made by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) can be distributed to taxpaying households, which amounts to $5,000 per household.

This originally started off as a proposal on social media, but has now reached the White House with US President Donald Trump also seeming to approve of it.

However, this can be a tough call since saving the targeted $2 trillion which is as much as a third of the government's spending is unlikely to happen and even if it does, distributing it to citizens could fuel inflation, according to a report by news agency AP which cited economists.

There is also the annual budget deficit which was $1.8 trillion las...