Catenaa, Monday, November 10, 2025- US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the $2000 dividend from tariffs could come to every American through tax cuts.
President Donald Trump has said most Americans can expect to get a “dividend” from tariffs of $2,000 or more, as the levies generate a surge in revenue.
On Sunday, Trump took to social media to say: “A dividend of at least $2,000 a person (not including high-income people!) will be paid to everyone.”
Speaking to ABC later, Bessent stressed he hadn’t talked to the President but speculated the $2,000 dividend “could be just the tax decreases that we are seeing on the president’s agenda.”
The comments follow Trump’s back and forth with reporters on Thursday in the Oval Office, where he recognized that US consumers are “paying something” for tariffs.
“I think that they might be paying something. But when you take the overall impact, the Americans are gaining tremendously,” Trump said.
It was among the first acknowledgments from Trump that US consumers are footing at least some of the bill for his tariff regime, the bulk of which faced scrutiny before the Supreme Court this week.
In a closely watched case, a majority of the justices, both the court’s three liberal-leaning justices, as well as three more conservative ones, offered skeptical questions regarding the president’s authority to impose his most sweeping duties.
The court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, has previously backed Trump in a series of decisions this year.
But justices appeared skeptical of the president’s authority, casting doubt over the centerpiece of Trump’s second-term economic agenda.
If the Supreme Court does not side with Trump, it’s widely expected that the administration will seek out alternative methods to carry out the US trade agenda.
