President Donald Trump has hinted at when Americans can expect the $2,000 tariff cuts he has promised in recent months — and they won’t start anytime soon.
Trump has repeatedly floated the idea of giving cash to Americans, which he says is possible because of the revenue from his trade tariffs.
In a wide-ranging interview, the president was asked for an update on the timeline of the checks The New York Times, where he initially replied, “I did that? When did I do that?” according to the transcript.
“The tariff money is so substantial,” he said after pressing further. “That’s coming in, that I can make $2,000 someday. I’d say by the end of the year.”
Trump previously told reporters that the checks would be distributed “probably the middle of next year, a little later than that.”
In a follow-up question, Trump was pressed The times about whether he needed Congress to approve the checks.
“No, I don’t think so,” he said. “We received it from other sources.”
Trump also repeated this in the interview false claim that a “warrior dividend” of $1,776 awarded to military members before Christmas was paid from tariff revenues.
The payments to the troops came from a congressionally approved housing allowance — money they were already set to receive — that was part of Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” passed in July 2025.
The White House has yet to release a concrete plan for the $2,000 checks, and when asked about it, members of the administration and Trump allies expressed varying degrees of confidence.
“We’ll see. We need legislation for that,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News. Futures on Sunday morning mid-November. Bersent later told ABC News that tariff revenue can take many forms — indicating that it doesn’t necessarily have to be a paycheck similar to the stimulus checks of the first Trump administration.
Kevin Hassett, the director of the National Economic Council, told reporters in November that there was enough tariff revenue “to cover those checks and not go to the rest of the budget.”
A key factor in whether checks on tariff cuts are even possible will be how the Supreme Court rules in Trump’s tariff case, a decision expected within days. If the court backs Trump’s efforts to impose sweeping tariffs through the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the president could move forward with the one-time checks.
Trump warned on Monday that if the Supreme Court overturned his tariff policy, the US would be ‘SHOCKED’!
Ariana Baio contributed reporting
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