WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent revealed that the Trump administration has discussed restricting the president’s proposed $2,000 tariff dividend to families making less than six figures.
“Well, there are a lot of options here that the president’s talking about a $2,000 rebate and those — that would be for families making less than, say, $100,000,” Bessent told “Fox & Friends” Wednesday.
“We haven’t,” Bessent clarified when asked if the Trump administration decided on that limit. “It’s in discussion.”
Last week, following a brutal hearing over his “trafficking” and “reciprocal” tariffs before the Supreme Court, President Trump floated a $2,000 dividend but did not elaborate on specifics on how that would work.
Bessent later told ABC’s “This Week” that the dividend “could come in lots of forms” and that it “could be just the tax decreases that we are seeing.”
