唐纳德·特朗普总统仍然“致力于”向每个美国人发送一份2000美元的分红支票从...分发关税收入，白宫新闻秘书卡罗琳·莱维特周三说。
白宫官员正在探索执行该计划的方法提出莱维特在周末的一篇社交媒体帖子中补充说，但她没有提供具体选项的细节。
“总统明确表示，他希望实现这一目标，”莱维特在白宫对记者说。"所以他的经济顾问团队正在调查此事."
白宫的坚定立场是在财政部长斯科特·贝森特似乎产生怀疑关于特朗普的提议，他说这笔支出可能只是指特朗普的税收节省一张大而漂亮的钞票立法。
贝森特告诉美国广播公司，关税红利可能会“以多种形式”出现本周”周日，他补充说，他没有与特朗普谈论过这个提议。
“我们在总统议程上看到的可能只是减税。小费不征税，加班不征税，社会保障不征税，汽车贷款可抵扣。这些都是在税收法案中融资的实质性扣除，”Bessent补充说。
一些经济学家质疑用现有的关税基金能否获得红利。
特朗普周日早上在社交媒体上发布的一条简短消息中宣布了这项政策提案，重点是与关税相关的税收。
“反对关税的人是傻瓜!我们现在是世界上最富有、最受尊敬的国家，几乎没有通货膨胀，股票市场价格创纪录。401k是有史以来最高的，”总统写道。“每人至少2000美元的股息(不包括高收入人群!)会付给大家。”
该消息没有具体说明谁有资格获得赔付，也没有说明该政策将如何运作。特朗普授权的两项疫情时代的刺激支票适用于年收入高达7.5万美元的个人和年收入高达15万美元的夫妇。除了这些基准，高收入者有资格获得更少的支付。
税收基金会(Tax Foundation)的政策专家艾丽卡·约克(Erica York)在一份报告中说，如果特朗普让收入在10万美元或以下的任何人都可以获得股息支付，这项政策将惠及约1.5亿美国人，相当于大约3000亿美元的股息邮政在x上。
根据财政部的数据，截至9月30日，联邦政府已经产生了1950亿美元的关税相关收入。
根据这一计算，股息支票提案的3000亿美元成本将远远超过目前可用的关税收入。
然而，理论上，特朗普政府可以承诺从预期的关税收入中支付红利。
财政部预测未来十年的关税收入将达到3万亿美元。根据财政部的数据，如果特朗普政府选择这条路，股息支付将增加联邦债务，目前联邦债务超过38万亿美元。
Trump is 'committed' to $2,000 tariff dividend payments, White House says
President Donald Trump remains "committed" to sending each American a$2,000 dividend checkto be distributed fromtariffrevenue, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Wednesday.
White House officials are exploring ways to execute the planput forwardby Trump in a social media post over the weekend, Leavitt added, but she did not provide details about specific options.
"The president made it clear he wants to make it happen," Leavitt told reporters at the White House. "So his team of economic advisers are looking into it."
The firm stance from the White House comes days after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent appeared tocast doubton Trump's proposal, saying the payout could merely refer to tax savings enshrined by Trump'sOne Big Beautiful Billlegislation.
A tariff dividend may come "in lots of forms," Bessent told ABC News' "This Week" on Sunday, adding that he had not spoken with Trump about the proposal.
"It could be just the tax decreases that we are seeing on the president's agenda. No tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security, deductibility on auto loans. Those are substantial deductions that are being financed in the tax bill," Bessent added.
Some economists have questioned whether the dividend is achievable with available tariff funds.
Trump announced the policy proposal in a brief message on social media on Sunday morning, focused on tariff-related tax revenue.
"People that are against Tariffs are FOOLS! We are now the Richest, Most Respected Country In the World, With Almost No Inflation, and A Record Stock Market Price. 401k's are Highest EVER," the president wrote. "A dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone."
The message did not specify who would qualify for the payout or how the policy would operate. Two pandemic-era stimulus checks authorized by Trump were made available to individuals bringing in as much as $75,000 per year and couples earning up to $150,000. Beyond those benchmarks, higher earners were eligible for smaller payments.
If Trump were to make the dividend payments available to anyone earning $100,000 or less, the policy would reach about 150 million Americans, amounting to roughly $300 billion in dividends, Erica York, a policy expert at the Tax Foundation, said in aposton X.
As of Sept. 30, the federal government had generated $195 billion in tariff-related revenue, according to the Treasury Department.
By that math, the estimated $300 billion cost of the dividend check proposal would far exceed the amount of currently available tariff revenue.
In theory, however, the Trump administration could promise to pay the dividend from anticipated tariff revenue.
The Treasury Department has forecast $3 trillion in tariff revenue over the next decade. Should the Trump administration choose that route, the dividend payments would add to the federal debt, which currently stands at over $38 trillion, according to the Treasury Department.
