Trump says surprise rebate checks could be coming thanks to tariff revenue
Source: Staten Island Advance/SiLive
Published: Jul. 25, 2025, 6:45 p.m.
President Donald Trumps on Friday said that hes considering issuing rebate checks to Americans that would be paid out of the revenue generated by increased tariffs on other countries, CBS News reported. Were thinking about a little rebate. But the big thing we want to do is pay down debt. But were thinking about a rebate, Trump told reporters before leaving for a four-day visit to Scotland.
The president said that the rebate could be for people of a certain income level, but he didnt specify what income threshold hes considering. The federal government has collected about $100 billion in tariff revenue since the Trump administration instituted its higher import duties earlier this year.
That figure could increase to about $300 billion per year, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox Business Mornings with Maria earlier this week. Its not the first time that Trump in his second White House term has pitched the idea of issuing rebate checks to Americans.
The president in February said that he was looking at using 20% of the savings from Elon Musks cost-cutting task force, the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, to provide direct payments to taxpayers. Those checks have not materialized, with House Republicans saying that they were concerned that such payments could increase the national deficit.
Read more: https://www.silive.com/politics/2025/07/trump-says-surprise-rebate-checks-could-be-coming-thanks-to-tariff-revenue.html

eShirl
(19,417 posts)bluestarone
(20,005 posts)Trying to BUY votes? (i'm sure about this)
Beachnutt
(8,829 posts)he knows he is losing support bigly.
IMO he will offer more and more to people and who knows what stunt he'll pull to distract.
OrlandoDem2
(3,058 posts)Nictuku
(4,296 posts)Lovie777
(19,474 posts)farmers still waiting on the monies promised by shithole and cronies?
It's tax payer's monies.
How long before GM and other corporate businesses begin to fail?
johnnyfins
(2,527 posts)The LAST thing they are gonna do is pay down debt.
The Madcap
(1,343 posts)The people of this country are going to pay for it.
bucolic_frolic
(51,632 posts)Obviously this is political theater.
uncle ray
(3,259 posts)bucolic_frolic
(51,632 posts)
customerserviceguy
(25,257 posts)with the Covid-era checks. If there's anything that he knows, it's prop humor. Even Carrot Top is amazed.
The Wizard
(13,292 posts)Irish_Dem
(72,739 posts)cstanleytech
(27,809 posts)travelingthrulife
(2,946 posts)At least we know that these people would completely destroy our government for $2000.00. No job anymore, but a Trump signed check...might be worth something some day.
Irish_Dem
(72,739 posts)Stupid bastards.
CrispyQ
(40,033 posts)
Back in my working days I was always surprised how much employee loyalty a few free meals would buy & that it made up for the 2% raise we all got the same year the company reported great profits. Working as an executive assistant for a few years was one of the more difficult jobs I had, & not work wise. Seeing the compensation the execs got, via pay, stocks, & expense reports, was nauseating. Omg, the things that got approved on expense reports!

Irish_Dem
(72,739 posts)The rest of us scrape by and have to follow all the laws and rules.
cstanleytech
(27,809 posts)Vinca
(52,460 posts)draining the treasury.
Lovie777
(19,474 posts)CrispyQ
(40,033 posts)Why are people so short sighted? Why are they so willing to settle? I think the answer is, they're too comfortable to fight for more. ???
Vinca
(52,460 posts)CrispyQ
(40,033 posts)he decided to position himself in the best place to get the best crumbs & when he looked around the country those places were blue states. Ever since then I've pictured the working class as little mice under the table, scurrying for the crumbs the rich drop. Same as it ever was.
Happy Saturday!
Trust_Reality
(2,220 posts)Good description of trickle down economics.
twodogsbarking
(14,662 posts)and the taxpayers pay for it all, including his thugalongs and the secret service. Someone make this more of an issue. Oh wait, that will never happen. Sorry.
Historic NY
(39,167 posts)I presume.
doc03
(38,185 posts)$2000 stimulus check in August. I just said I had never heard anything about it.
Ritabert
(1,425 posts)....but it wouldn't go out to anybody who isn't paying taxes so low income people would get nothing.
mwb970
(11,890 posts)I assume it will be Biden's fault. Or Obama's.
LymphocyteLover
(8,420 posts)sinkingfeeling
(56,008 posts)Weren't tariffs going to pay for billionaires' tax cuts?
Bengus81
(9,089 posts)All theater,all BS.
BumRushDaShow
(157,375 posts)Bank on it!!!!111!!!!1!
Monsieur_Grumpe
(157 posts)Trust_Reality
(2,220 posts)mwb970
(11,890 posts)He's really sinking now!
Walleye
(41,561 posts)Trust_Reality
(2,220 posts)Justice matters.
(8,679 posts)It would not be the first time he rapes the constitution.
Walleye
(41,561 posts)eppur_se_muova
(39,547 posts)FakeNoose
(38,044 posts)Last edited Sun Jul 27, 2025, 07:52 PM - Edit history (1)
How does Chump plan to "mail out" these non-existent checks? Oh yeah, he's got the barely-functioning Postal Service and he hasn't killed them off yet.
bullimiami
(14,052 posts)With his name on the check.
And a letter that brags about his generosity.
He sure loves to spend opm.
Bayard
(26,186 posts)And people will fall for it. Tariffs will pay for everything!
azureblue
(2,503 posts)More Trump lies to cover his lies. What he always does when he gets in a jam.
Nothing from pedo Don about the massive debt he created.
Norrrm
(2,555 posts)
meow2u3
(25,194 posts)
cstanleytech
(27,809 posts)Trust_Reality
(2,220 posts)people who are struggling so much that they cannot see beyond next month's rent and their ongoing medical bills.
chouchou
(2,198 posts)Nice and fresh in the minds of MAGA's.
Paladin
(31,133 posts)bluedigger
(17,273 posts)niyad
(125,610 posts)And I want the documentation on exactly where that money supposedly came from.
Karadeniz
(24,596 posts)Hugin
(36,711 posts)Figures.
Trust_Reality
(2,220 posts)LaRaven
(177 posts)I want to know WHO got the millions from his extortions with CBS, Columbia, etc.?
Justice matters.
(8,679 posts)or the only book in there will be Epstein's birthday book?
LetMyPeopleVote
(166,992 posts)trump is proposing giving back money he took from Americans
Botany
(74,878 posts).. more on foreign produced products such as generic drugs and O.T.C. Medicines that are
produced in China.
Does Krasnov even know that and he is just lying or is he just out to lunch?
Kid Berwyn
(21,546 posts)Money solves problems.
greatauntoftriplets
(178,008 posts)patphil
(8,112 posts)We get fleeced for $100 billion to help finance the gigantic tax cut for the rich, and are expected to feel good when we get a few dollars back.
Trump still thinks he can fool us into believing that other countries pay the tariff on imported goods.
So, that $100 billion came out of our pockets. It's a sales tax, nothing less.
Trust_Reality
(2,220 posts)If he says it comes from other countries, then that seems to be very real for him. Is he a con man or an idiot?
Hmm, I guess he is a 34 times convicted fraudster.
twodogsbarking
(14,662 posts)being kidnapped and sent to Florida).
Trust_Reality
(2,220 posts)twodogsbarking
(14,662 posts)If my memory serves me "hispanic" (Latino) is listed separate from "white" and "black" when identifying yourself. They just want to keep track of whole numbers not individuals. I never believed that. That's crap and that is wrong. Bernie has used that sentence. He was talkin about big business.
C_U_L8R
(47,741 posts)And give me 10 cents back.
Thanks a fuckload, Trump.
twodogsbarking
(14,662 posts)Texin
(2,778 posts)emulatorloo
(46,074 posts)taxi
(2,412 posts)a rebate would return some money to you. The first qualifier is to show you purchased that specific item, or perhaps a quantity of that item. The question here becomes who qualifies for the rebate and what is the threshold before you can apply?
ananda
(32,663 posts)was to get people to hate the wrong people
and believe in utterly insane policies and falsehoods.
Torchlight
(5,201 posts)His word is as airtight as air.
JT45242
(3,517 posts)The grift and cruelty would make him doubly happy...
They would vote for rethugs in the midterms then die from lack of healthcare.
Javaman
(64,312 posts)Heres some money, forget all about this Epstein nonsense! Take the money, buy something special for your spouse! if you know whats good for you
hatrack
(63,139 posts)It's not working, fuckstick.
Wiz Imp
(6,298 posts)is already far lower than it was under Biden, and then give more money away, causing the debt to skyrocket even further.
Oh and let me guess, the amount of your rebate is based on your net worth/net income meaning most of the rebate money would go to billionaires? (I'd like to think I'm joking with that sentence, but I can definitely see Trump wanting to do it that way).
Unfortunately, this blatantly obvious bribe would work on some people, but I'm willing to bet it won't work nearly as well as he thinks it would.
Polybius
(20,609 posts)My town!
Crowman2009
(3,187 posts)More total BS from the orange pedo! Only this won't stick to wall now that everyone wants the Epstein files released.
Martin68
(26,236 posts)What a weasel!
maspaha
(575 posts)Sorry to insult mother f-ers
UpInArms
(53,194 posts)Squirrel!
rurallib
(63,971 posts)And of course play it forever in 2026. Muthafuckers
BlueKota
(4,448 posts)as my imaginary checks from George Soros, that I receive for voting for Democrats, and my equally imaginary Obama phone.
This promise will disappear like all the other ones, as if it were never made.
Sneederbunk
(16,340 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(24,247 posts)Maybe it was stolen from my mailbox by some illegal robbin' rapin' alien!
I did see someone on the sidewalk, pretending to walk their dog. Hmm ....
Figarosmom
(7,272 posts)He always tries to buy them.
ImNotGod
(905 posts)Pas-de-Calais
(10,141 posts)1-Received
2-Bank accepts
3-Doesnt bounce
FakeNoose
(38,044 posts)Every time we buy something that's been imported recently, the price increase we're paying is due to the tariffs.
We're ALL paying more, even those of us on fixed incomes that can't afford it. He's TAKING it from us without our consent, and then giving it back to a few lucky ones.
jmowreader
(52,562 posts)dobleremolque
(1,037 posts)if I got a Soros check.
wolfie001
(5,764 posts)Just like his "escort" wife.
LymphocyteLover
(8,420 posts)Initech
(105,789 posts)We have no money to keep USAID or the IRS open, but we have money for this? WTF.
maxsolomon
(36,982 posts)BULL SHIT
3825-87867
(1,490 posts)but some businesses, card companies, lending institutions and probably trumps secret coffers have used to glean proffts from taxes that shouldn't have been pain in the first place.
Great gig! Get extra money from us rubes, invest it for a number of months, collect interest from it then give back a small percentage of the principle telling us he's doing it for us. Illegal? No. Credit card companies do it every day but the gov supposedly isn't legally allowed to do that. Of course, with Don Capone, anything goes so long as he and his ilk can benefit.
phxjurist
(41 posts)Don't count on it.
Battle Blue
(1 post)1WorldHope
(1,483 posts)mercuryblues
(15,780 posts)I read it as trump saying that to his maggots... I sent you money, now STF up.
Because seriously, $5 is about all we will get, after trumps share.
1WorldHope
(1,483 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(166,992 posts)Godot51
(571 posts)There'll be pie in the sky when we die...
Scrivener7
(56,542 posts)Evolve Dammit
(21,118 posts)Mblaze
(630 posts)DallasNE
(7,832 posts)And this is one way to prime the pump of spending to ward off the recession. Too little, too late.
Turbineguy
(39,169 posts)hildegaard28
(610 posts)Could just end the tariffs, and then people wont have to pay the excess tax on their consumption.
proud patriot
(102,162 posts)I do not believe it for a minute
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(126,580 posts)That's the more likely of the two.
mntleo2
(2,604 posts)...tell me something that is not a big pile of BS. Sheesh!
Cat in Seattle
Linda Ed
(516 posts)rebate to those children and people in GAZA who have not eaten in DAYS!!!!
turbinetree
(26,422 posts)The Shell Game (Magic Trick Explained)
Skittles
(166,351 posts)
tclambert
(11,163 posts)Akakoji
(374 posts)No check will ever materialize. For him to even mention paying down debt is even worse! The only place that money will come from is his stupid MAGA supporters.
Brainfodder
(7,555 posts)

Dem2theMax
(10,809 posts)but if it does, I'll donate mine to PBS.
And I live on less money per month than that $2,000.
But I'll still donate it, because it would feel so good to do so.
Magoo48
(6,548 posts)Codifer
(1,019 posts)What amount of money (with a "B" would it take for this carnival barker to just GO AWAY?
But what is that old saw?...... "After you pay the Danegelt, how do you get rid of the Dane?"
Rocknation
(44,923 posts)he gave us only $600 of the $2000 each that was available -- upon being elected, Biden gave us the rest
Rocknation
bluestarone
(20,005 posts)If this rebate comes, we should all donate to lawyers attempting to get Epstein files and videos released!!
Jilly_in_VA
(12,547 posts)to his billionaire buddies. Not to us.
Rebl2
(16,749 posts)my breath on that one
truthisfreedom
(23,440 posts)And the Covid-era PPP loans which instantly became grants. Using our tax dollars to secure more repuke footholds on power in government. Pure corruption. Just restore the Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security thats been dodge-damaged and STOP USING OUR MONEY TO BUY VOTES.
stollen
(929 posts)in that case. Anything to benefit the base now.
mike_c
(36,652 posts)My wife's family and her kids are all Trumpsters. When she asked her son why, he said "because we can never get ahead in this economy" and "Trump's gonna fix that, starting with checks for everyone." She asked him a couple weeks ago how that was working out, and he said he "hasn't gotten any government checks yet," but he still thinks they're going to arrive soon.
Rebates for everyone is just another smoke screen to keep the rubes in line.
AntiFascist
(13,580 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(166,992 posts)Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent just said the quiet part out loud: The administration is scheming to privatize Social Security, the DNC said.
Scott Bessent, Trumpâs Treasury secretary, said he sees part of the Republicansâ megabill as âa backdoor for privatizing Social Security.â
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-07-30T20:06:03.549Z
It was interesting to see Democrats waste no time in offering âfive-alarm fireâ reactions. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-treasury-secretary-says-sees-backdoor-privatizing-social-securi-rcna222062
As Politico reported, the White House Cabinet apparently likes them anyway:
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday framed the presidents new Trump accounts as a transformative tool for long-term wealth building and a backdoor for privatizing Social Security. Bessent said the new tax-deferred investment accounts, which were created by President Donald Trumps sweeping tax law earlier this month, could be a way to boost financial literacy and young voters engagement in the economy.
The logic of Bessents perspective was difficult to follow. According to his pitch at a Brietbart event in Washington, D.C., the treasury secretary believes young people will be less likely to want to bring down the system and vote for candidates such as Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee in New York Citys mayoral race if theyre literally invested in the market.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:aunpu65mdrhwfie7ynymlzeh/post/3lv77cuzqn42c
Link to tweet
Bessent added, In a way, it is a backdoor for privatizing Social Security. If, all of a sudden, these accounts grow and you have in the hundreds of thousands of dollars for your retirement, thats a game-changer, too.
The Cabinet secretary didnt elaborate on why, exactly, he thinks this is a backdoor for privatizing Social Security, or why the Trump administration sees privatizing Social Security as a worthwhile policy goal though I'm certainly looking forward to his future comments on the subject. (The accounts included in the megabill wont have any direct impact on Social Security benefits.)....
Brandon Weathersby, a spokesperson for American Bridge 21st Century, a super PAC aligned with Democratic politics, pushed a similar line: Republicans think if they make the SSA inoperable by firing critical staffers and make it nearly impossible to get the help you need, they can deem it all beyond repair and privatize the entire program, so their billionaire friends can make a fortune off the backs of some of the most vulnerable Americans. ... Scott Bessent just admitted what Trump and Republicans have been hiding all along: Their plan was never to protect and strengthen Social Security; it was to dismantle it, take benefits away from seniors and the working-class, and turn the program into a cash cow for the ultra-rich.
I have a hunch the public hasnt heard the last of Bessents quote.