{"id":273665,"date":"2025-10-03T04:41:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T04:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/273665\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T04:41:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T04:41:33","slug":"trump-considering-2000-tariff-dividend-for-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/273665\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump considering $2,000 tariff \u2018dividend\u2019 for Americans\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Trump said Thursday that he\u2019s still weighing the idea of giving Americans up to $2,000 in rebates derived from the revenues his tariff agenda <\/a>has generated.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s proposal to share some of the hundreds of billions of dollars the federal government has collected since he slapped foreign nations with steep levies in April, comes as the Supreme Court is slated to hear arguments<\/a> in a case next month that will decide whether the president has the power to impose sweeping global tariffs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re just starting to kick in,\u201d Trump said of the tariffs in an interview with One America News Network, \u201cbut ultimately, your tariffs are going to be over a trillion dollars a year.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"DonaldTrump said paying down the national debt was the \u201cnumber one\u201d priority. One America News<\/p>\n

What does he plan to do with the money?\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cNumber one, we\u2019re paying down debt,\u201d Trump said, \u201cbecause people have allowed the debt to go crazy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The president then argued that the $37 trillion national debt is actually \u201cvery little, relatively speaking\u201d because the government is now taking in unprecedented sums of money from tariffs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWith that being said, we\u2019ll pay back debt, but we also might make a distribution to the people,\u201d Trump continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump described his plan, which he\u2019s floated before<\/a>, as \u201ca dividend to the people of America.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re thinking maybe $1,000 to $2,000 \u2013 it would be great,\u201d the president said of the size of the checks Americans might get.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Any disbursement from the federal government would require congressional approval.<\/p>\n

\"UnitedDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, the government issued three rounds of stimulus checks to assist Americans affected by widespread business shutdowns and furloughs. Scott Habermann \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n

The federal government has raked in about $214.9 billion in revenues<\/a> from tariffs this year, according to Fox Business, citing data from the Treasury Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The $31.3 billion in tariff revenue collected in September, however, was $73 million less than the August record.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has repeatedly said that he expects the US to generate at least $300 billion in tariff revenue by the end of the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In August, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit<\/a> ruled that most of the president\u2019s tariffs were not covered by an emergency powers law \u2013 a decision that followed two lower courts finding that most of the levies imposed on US trading partners were illegal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The appeals court allowed Trump\u2019s tariffs to remain in place pending his administration\u2019s appeal to the Supreme Court.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The justices on the high court will hear oral arguments in the case in the first week of November.<\/p>\n

Bessent <\/a>warned the justices in a filing that the government could be forced to refund between $750 billion to $1 trillion in collected and projected tariff revenue if the Supreme Court finds the duties are illegal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump said Thursday that he\u2019s still weighing the idea of giving Americans up to $2,000 in rebates…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":273666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,69,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,80,278,2175,84116,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969,5223],"class_list":{"0":"post-273665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-supreme-court","18":"tag-tariffs","19":"tag-treasury-department","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-us-news","26":"tag-usa","27":"tag-white-house"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115308402251089967","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}