The nonpartisan nonprofit Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget released cost projections after Trump pitched his idea this weekend.
Donald Trump’s proposal to send Americans $2,000 rebate checks from money collected through his tariffs is projected to cost $600 billion a year ‒ about double what the United States is expected to generate from the new duties on imports.
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan nonprofit that studies fiscal policy, released the projections on Nov. 10 after Trump over the weekend pitched his idea on Truth Social. The president touted “taking in Trillions of Dollars” and said, “A dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone.”
That’s a reasonable argument I largely hadn’t considered because I genuinely hadn’t considered he cares whether he has goodwill, or would even accept he had lost it anyway. But if he does, and he has, you could well be right.
I think this is just another 5000 check from doge though.
Who knows. He claimed he paused tarrifs in the beginning because people were getting ‘yippy’ (lmao what kind of dismissive, out of touch fucking asshole says that?), so he could just be tired of hearing about poor people’s troubles and thinks this will shut everyone up.