GOP lawmakers pump brakes on Trump's $5K check promise: 'Where are you getting the money?'

President Donald Trump's promise of a big payout for Americans if Republicans win the midterms is getting a rocky reception on Capitol Hill.

Several Republicans outright oppose the $5,000 check promise, while others offered tacit support in comments to Fox News Digital but hesitated on whether it could actually be delivered.

It's a sign that the GOP will have an uphill fight to get the "Trump dividend" approved by Congress — with the president and lawmakers divided over whether it even needs the legislative branch's green light.

"I disagree with it.

It's pay-to-play," Rep.

Ralph Norman, R-S.C., told Fox News Digital.

"You shouldn't pay anybody to vote your conscience.

Plus, where are you getting the money? I think we're in debt $40 trillion." House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., whose powerful committee would likely play a major role in crafting the $5,000 stimulus if it did run through Congress, said he was "skeptical" it could be achieved.

TRUMP FACES RECKONING AS GOP FIGURES LABEL $5K PROMISE A 'SOCIALIST VOTE-BUYING SCHEME' "Take a billion dollars ...

I'd rather use it to either bolster defense or save Social Security.

I think that's a better use of the money.

But again, we have to see what we're looking at.

Right now, we don't have a bill," Cole told Fox News Digital.

TRUMP DANGLES $5,000 CHECKS AS DEBT SURGES — BUT ONLY IF GOP CAN CLEAR MAJOR MIDTERM HURDLE He added more optimistically, "We just have an idea that we want to get money back to the American people.