President Trump is very seriously considering giving all taxpayers up to $2,000 stimulus/rebate checks, paid for by the massive tariff revenue coming in.
While the large majority will go to debt pay down, President Trump seems to think sharing some directly with the American taxpayers is the right thing to do.
🚨BREAKING: President Trump is considering giving taxpayers $2,000 stimulus checks using the tariff revenue.
— aka (@akafaceUS) October 3, 2025
Watch President Trump himself right here:
President Trump tells me he’s considering rebate checks of $1,000-$2,000 from tariff revenue.
TRUMP: “We’ll pay back debt. But we also might make a distribution to the people, almost like a dividend to the people of America.”
Tune into @OANN at 11pm ET to watch! pic.twitter.com/VECOrgQxoA
— Daniel Baldwin (@baldwin_daniel_) October 3, 2025
The NY Post added these details:
President Trump said Thursday he’s still weighing the idea of giving Americans up to $2,000 in rebates derived from the revenues his tariff agenda has generated.
Trump’s 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 in a case next month that will decide whether the president has the power to impose such sweeping global tariffs.
“They’re just starting to kick in,” Trump said of the tariffs in an interview with One America News Network, “but ultimately, your tariffs are going to be over a trillion dollars a year.”
“Number one, we’re paying down debt,” Trump said, “because people have allowed the debt to go crazy.”
The president argued that the $37 trillion national debt is actually “very little, relatively speaking” because the government is taking in unprecedented sums of money from tariffs.
“With that being said, we’ll pay back debt, but we also might make a distribution to the people,” Trump continued.
Trump described his plan, which he’s floated before, as “a dividend to the people of America.”
“We’re thinking maybe $1,000 to $2,000 — it would be great,” the president said of the size of the checks Americans might get.
ADVERTISEMENTAny disbursement from the federal government would require congressional approval.
The federal government has raked in about $214.9 billion in revenues from tariffs this year, according to Fox Business, citing data from the Treasury Department.
The $31.3 billion in tariff revenue collected in September, however, was $73 million less than the August record.
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