Trump Says Americans Could Get Dividends From Tariff Revenues

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President Donald Trump floated the idea of giving dividends to some households as tariff collections reached $28 billion in July.

President Donald Trump suggested on Sunday that his administration could distribute dividends from tariff revenues to Americans with certain income levels.

Speaking to reporters before boarding Air Force One, Trump said that a distribution of dividends to selected U.S. households is possible, even as the government works to pay down the national debt.

โ€œWe have a lot of money coming in, much more money than the country has ever seen, by hundreds of billions of dollars,โ€ he said. โ€œThere could be a distribution for dividends to the people of our country. I would say for people that would be middle-income people and lower-income people, we could do a dividend.โ€

He also reaffirmed the governmentโ€™s commitment to lower drug prices, in line with his May 12 executive order that requires drug manufacturers to offer American consumers โ€œthe most-favored-nation lowest priceโ€ for prescription drugs.

โ€œWeโ€˜ll be dropping drug prices, it will start over the next two to three months, by 1,200, 1,300 and even 1,400 percent,โ€ he said. โ€œWe will pay as low as the lowest nation in the world.โ€

Trump did not specify the potential amount of dividends he could distribute. The U.S. government collected $28 billion in tariff revenues in July, marking a record monthly high and bringing the total revenue for the fiscal year to more than $151 billion, according to Treasury data.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told last monthโ€™s cabinet meeting that tariff collections could reach $300 billion by the end of the year, as a result of Trumpโ€™s trade campaign.

Trump imposed a 10 percent baseline tariff on nearly all U.S. trading partners in April, along with reciprocal tariffs that vary depending on their trade barriers with the United States, as part of an effort to address trade deficits. He later implemented a 90-day pause on the reciprocal tariffs, before extending the reprieve to Aug. 1 to allow time for negotiations.

By Aldgra Fredly

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