The new Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, is capturing headlines both for its widespread cuts and its controversial leader, Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

DOGE’s mission is to slash federal spending, through cuts to agencies, the government workforce and what officials have called waste, fraud and abuse. A list of savings provided by the White House noted at least $2.2 billion in initial savings, NBC5 Chicago reported, while DOGE said it has saved taxpayers at least $55 billion.

Musk said he hopes to save taxpayers some $2 trillion annually.

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The widespread cuts have many on social media calling for some of the money to be returned to Americans in the form of a stimulus check.

USA Today reported Azoria investment firm CEO James Fishback took to X to urge Musk to issue a stimulus check based on the reported savings. One TikTok video expanded on the idea, saying taxpayers could get as much as $8,000. That video has garnered more than 5 million views since it was posted Sunday.

“American taxpayers deserve a ‘DOGE Dividend’: 20% the money that DOGE saves should be sent back to hard-working Americans as a tax refund check,” Fishback said. “It was their money in the first place! At $2 trillion in DOGE savings and 78 million tax-paying households, this is a $5,000 refund per household, with the remaining used to pay down the national debt. @ElonMusk, let’s do this! This is how we rebuild trust in our government.”

Musk reportedly responded to the comments with “will check with the president.”

That means while there’s no current DOGE stimulus check planned, it’s not out of the question. And there is precedent.

During the COVID pandemic, people received three separate stimulus payments: $1,200 per person in March 2020, $600 per person in December 2020 and $1,400 per person in March 2021.