Trump Proposes $2,000 Check to Americans From Tariff Revenues

The Treasury notes that $195 billion in customs duties has been collected through the first three quarters of 2025.

President Donald Trump speaks during an event about weight-loss drugs in the Oval Office of the White House on Nov. 6, 2025. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

President Donald Trump announced on Nov. 9 plans to offer Americans outside of “high income” brackets $2,000 each out of his administration’s tariff revenues.

“We are taking in Trillions of Dollars and will soon begin paying down our ENORMOUS DEBT, $37 Trillion. Record Investment in the USA, plants and factories going up all over the place,” Trump wrote on social media. “A dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone.”