President Donald Trump remains committed to delivering $2,000 payments to many Americans using revenue generated from tariffs, the White House has confirmed.
In a Wednesday statement, the White House noted that Trump administration officials are actively reviewing implementation options for the president’s proposal.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that Trump’s team is considering multiple pathways for carrying out the dividend, which the president first referenced over the weekend.
In a Sunday post on Truth Social, Trump celebrated the success of his tariff policies, emphasizing the scale of the funds flowing into the government.
He proposed directing part of those revenues toward a dividend of at least $2,000 for Americans, excluding high-income earners, while also using the revenue to reduce the nation’s $37 trillion debt.
“We are taking in Trillions of Dollars and will soon begin paying down our ENORMOUS DEBT, $37 Trillion,” Trump wrote.
“Record Investment in the USA, plants and factories going up all over the place.
“A dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone.”
The president has also referred to critics of his tariff strategy as “fools.”
The Supreme Court heard arguments last week on the administration’s use of tariffs under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act and is expected to issue a ruling in the coming weeks or months.
Trump has expressed strong confidence in the administration’s position.
“I can’t imagine that anybody would do that kind of devastation to our country,” he said.
Trump has called the case one of the most consequential in U.S. history, stressing that the tariffs function as a “defensive mechanism for our country, as national security for our country.”
A 100 percent tariff on China helped secure what he described as a “wonderful deal for everybody, our farmers, as you know, with soybeans at levels that nobody’s ever seen before,” Trump told reporters last week.
“If we didn’t have the tariffs, we wouldn’t have been able to do that,” he said.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who attended the Supreme Court arguments, said in recent public statements that the proposed dividend might take the form of tax cuts rather than direct payments, potentially limited to families earning under $100,000 per year.
“I haven’t spoken to the president about this yet, but … the $2,000 dividend could come in lots of forms, in lots of ways,” Bessent told ABC News on Sunday.
“It could be just the tax decreases that we are seeing on the president’s agenda,” Bessent added.
“You know, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security.”
He describes those items as “substantial deductions” that are currently “being financed in the tax bill.”
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