President Trump has suggested that as part of his tariff policy, he will consider sending checks for discounts or tariff checks for the recovery of Americans funded by revenue collected by the rates imposed on imported goods. “We have so much money, we are considering a little discount for people with a certain level of income,” Trump told reporters on Friday in front of the White House. “A little discount for people with a certain level of income can be very pleasant.”
The discount will be derived from the significant amount of tariff revenue raised by the US government – over $ 100 billion alone in the first half of 2025, according to the Ministry of Finance.
Trump’s remarks regarding these discount checks that may be aimed at Americans, “from a certain level of income” suggest that they are likely to be tested by funds, but Trump offered some details about the exact income thresholds or the amount of the discount.
The stated discount goals are to compensate for Americans who may have encountered higher prices as a result of tariffs and potentially providing a small economic incentive, which gives a new meaning to Trump’s remarks on the business eating tariffs, with a lot of economic debate about who is really based on the bill.
Any such discount policy will probably require congressional approval, and legislators such as Senator Josh Holes have indicated support for legislation that will provide checks on discounts to working Americans, but no text of the bill or schedule is indicated. If it has entered into force, the administration will have to establish rules for eligibility, application or methods of automatic distribution and logistics of payments. This may look like past stimulus check programs, but it’s just theoretical at this point.
The concept of discounts differs from the restoration of legal or administrative tariffs of the petitioners who have been considered or authorized after court decisions, questioning the legality of some tariffs. In such cases, the recovery of the refund will go to companies that have paid import duties, not directly to terminate consumers.
Is this legal?
The proposed inspections for the reimbursement of Trump’s tariffs – reimbursed, funded by tariff revenue and distributed directly to US consumers – would almost certainly require the explicit legislation of Congress to be legally valid, given that the US Constitution gives the President to the President.
The president may impose certain tariffs on delegated legal authorities, but the courts have repeatedly established that the extensive use of these powers under the International Emergency Emergency Act (IEPA) is not legal. Numerous recent court decisions (including a unanimous court of the US International Trade) have blocked Trump’s wide tariffs for lack of legal basis under IEEPA, but tariffs remain in anticipation of appeal and theoretical – a decision of the Supreme Court.
Trump is a loaded July
The proposal for checking on tariff discounts or recovery checks is another new proposal by Trump’s policy in July, which is full of them as Washington, County Colombia, was shaken by a metastatic scandal involving a deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The Trump Ministry of Justice has been faced with bilateral criticism for its decision not to release the so -called Epstein files, which the Ministry of Justice said they did not exist. Thehe Wall Street Journal He publishes a series of spoons for Trump’s previous closeness to Epstein, including Trump’s name mentioned in the files.
In July, Trump said he had reached an agreement with Coca-Cola to return real sugar to the Coca formula, which the company partially confirmed days later. He also asked the Washington football team to return to his ex -name Redskins, threatening a political obstacle to their stadium project if they didn’t comply. He announced the release of 230,000 files related to Martin Luther King, Jr., and he escalates his feud with the Federal Reserve and President Jerome Powell, visiting the office renovation in a hard hat and joined the bizarre argument with a Powell on TV.
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