It’s unclear who would get these rebate checks, as Trump hinted that they would go to “people of a certain income.”
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday teased the possibility of issuing rebate checks to some Americans, using money collected from tariff revenue.
In response to a question from a reporter shortly before he left on a trip to Scotland, Trump said his administration was considering sending money to some Americans.
“We’re thinking about that actually. We have so much money coming in, we’re thinking about a little rebate,” Trump said. “But the big thing we want to do is pay down debt, but we’re thinking about a rebate.”
It’s unclear who would get these rebate checks, if the idea moves forward, as Trump hinted that they would go to “people of a certain income.”
“We’re thinking about a rebate because we have so much money coming in from tariffs that a little rebate for people of a certain income level might be very nice,” he told reporters outside the White House.
It’s unclear exactly how Trump would go about sending tariff rebate checks.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, there were a few rounds of stimulus checks sent to millions of Americans that were approved by Congress. In what was an unprecedented move, Trump’s name appeared on the first and second round of those checks.
Not the first time Trump has teased sending checks
In February, Trump said that he liked the idea of giving some of the savings from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency back to U.S. citizens as a kind of dividend.
He said at an investment conference in Miami that the administration was considering a concept in which 20% of the savings produced by DOGE’s cost-cutting efforts goes to American citizens and another 20% goes to paying down the national debt.
But that plan never went anywhere and Musk left the DOGE office in May.
Trump trying to move past Epstein
The president’s comments come as his administration appears to be attempting to move beyond the Epstein files, which have embroiled the president in controversy in recent days and have led to criticism from some of his supporters.
Earlier this month, Trump’s Department of Justice announced it would not be releasing any more of the “Epstein files,” which were collected as evidence against the now-deceased financier Jeffery Epstein. The files reportedly contained a “client list” belonging to Epstein, that conspiracy theorists believe could hold the names of people implicated in the underage sex trafficking operation Epstein was running before he died by suicide in jail.
The Justice Department denies that a client list exists.
But the decision to not release any more documents, which Trump promised to do while on the campaign trail, rattled support for the president.
In recent days, Trump and his allies, including National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard, have also floated the idea of attempting to prosecute former President Barack Obama for alleged corruption in the 2016 election — which Trump won. Analysts largely consider the attacks on Obama as a way to shift the media narrative away from covering the Epstein files.
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