President Donald Trump has addressed questions about whether Americans will receive the $2,000 tariff rebate checks he previously allegedly mentioned, saying the idea remains under serious consideration but stopped short of making a firm promise.
Donald Trump answers about $2K tariff checks
The president discussed the issue during an interview with NBC, where he was asked about the proposal for $2,000 checks funded by tariff income. The host pressed Trump on who would receive the payments and when they might be sent.
“We’d make it — I — I’m gonna — I’m looking at it very seriously,” Trump said. He added, “I’m the only one can do it because I’m takin’ in hundreds of billions of dollars of money from tariffs…” When asked directly if he could promise that some Americans would get the tariff checks, Donald Trump responded, “Oh yeah, sure. I can — I can do that. I haven’t made the commitment yet, but I may make the commitment.”
As the interview continued, Trump shifted to discussing payments already announced for U.S. military service members under the “Warrior Dividend” program, which he said was funded through existing legislation.
He claimed the checks were set at $1,776, later adjusted by $1 to reference the signing year of the Declaration of Independence. “You know, it was $1,775. They presented it to me because that’s what we have in a budget that I created ‘cause I wanted to take care of our military. Nobody takes care of the military like I do,” Trump said.
The topic also came up in a separate January interview with The New York Times White House correspondents. When asked about previously allegedly mentioning $2,000 checks tied to tariff revenues, Trump initially questioned the premise, asking, “I did do that? When did I do that?” He later said the substantial tariff income could allow him to issue the payments “toward the end of the year.”
Trump first publicly mentioned the $2,000 tariff rebate checks in a November 9 post on Truth Social.
Originally reported by Devanshi Basu on Mandatory.
