Trump teases $2,000 tariff dividend, Bessent says details still unclear

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00:00President Trump is promising what he calls a $2,000 dividend for most Americans,

00:08saying the money would come from the nation's booming tariff revenues.

00:11In a Truth Social post, the president wrote,

00:14people that are against tariffs are fools.

00:17We are taking in trillions of dollars and will soon begin paying down our enormous debt.

00:22A dividend of at least $2,000 a person, not including high-income people, will be paid to everyone.

00:27It was just one of a string of weekend posts where Trump claimed the U.S.

00:32was the richest and most respected country in the world, thanks to his trade policies,

00:36and that those tariffs are now paying down the national debt.

00:40But on ABC, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stopped short of calling Trump's dividend promise an actual plan.

00:47The $2,000 dividend could come in lots of forms, in lots of ways, George.

00:52You know, it could be just the tax decreases that we are seeing on the president's agenda.

00:59You know, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security, deductibility of auto loans.

01:06For now, there's no formal proposal, no congressional language, and no clear math showing how a $2,000 payout would be funded,

01:14though the bipartisan Policy Center shows the U.S. has brought in $227 billion in tariffs in 2025.

01:21The president has floated the idea, but the details, the dollars, and the specifics are not yet there.