Trump Will Need Congress to Approve $2K Tariff Dividends: Bessent
President Trump is going to need Congress to back his plan to issue $2,000 tariff dividend checks to Americans, according to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
“We will see. We need legislation for that,” Bessent told Fox’s Sunday Morning Futures.
Trump has floated the idea recently, paid for with revenue from tariffs the U.S. has been collecting on imports from around the world. But he said Friday that such checks wouldn’t be coming before the holidays this year, telling reporters aboard Air Force One on Friday that they would be coming next year.