President Donald Trump promised a $2,000 payment for every American as a tariff “dividend,” in a post Sunday morning.
The post comes after the Supreme Court questioned the legality of his use of emergency powers to impose sweeping new tariffs on nearly every country on Earth.
“A dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone,” read Trump’s post on Truth Social.
Trump provided no details on who exactly would be eligible, or when the payments might go out.
But Bessent explained to ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday that the tariff dividends might not be direct payments.
“The $2,000 divided could come in lots of forms,” Bessent said. “It could be just the tax decreases that we are seeing.”
The president added that the tariffs have brought in “trillions of dollars” and that 401(k) accounts are the “Highest EVER”.
