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 Trump’s on Friday said that he’s considering issuing rebate checks to Americans that would be paid out of the revenue generated by increased tariffs on other countries, CBS News reported. “We’re thinking about a little rebate. But the big thing we want to do is pay down debt. But we’re 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 didn’t specify what income threshold he’s 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. It’s 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 Musk’s 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.
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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!
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! 
I presume. 
Bank on it!!!!111!!!!1!
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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.
trump is proposing giving back money he took from Americans
My town!
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.
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.
if I got a Soros check.
Just like his "escort" wife. 
We have no money to keep USAID or the IRS open, but we have money for this? WTF. 
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. 
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?"
he gave us only $600 of the $2000 each that was available -- upon being elected, Biden gave us the rest
Rocknation
