"If you have been hoping for a $2,000 tariff rebate check, it may not come. President Donald Trump gave mixed messages about the issues in a recent interview with The New York Times. "You've promised $2,000 checks to Americans based off of your tariff revenues. When can they expect those?" Times reporter Katie Rogers asked. "I did do that? When did I do that?" Trump said. "Yeah, I'm thinking. Well, I did $1,776 for the military.""
"When Tyler Pager, another Times journalist, followed up, asking when the checks would come, Trump replied that "the tariff money is so substantial." "That's coming in, that I'll be able to do $2,000 sometime," Trump said. "I would say toward the end of the year." In November, Trump posted on Truth Social proposing a $2,000 payout to all US citizens with low or middle incomes, because the government is "taking in so much money" from tariffs."
President Trump expressed uncertainty and mixed signals about delivering $2,000 rebate checks funded by tariff revenue. He previously proposed targeted payouts to low- and middle-income Americans, citing substantial tariff receipts. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent estimated roughly $1 trillion in tariff collections in a recent Supreme Court filing. Legal challenges to tariffs and competing budget priorities could limit available funds for direct payments. Trump later indicated that tariff revenue would be used to reduce federal government debt and to fund national defense, which would reduce the likelihood of broad $2,000 payouts to Americans.
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