At least one Republican senator has said that the U.S. government cannot afford a Trump administration proposal to send out $2,000 tariff-derived rebate payments.
“If we’re bringing in revenue through the tariffs, that ought to be applied to reduce the deficit, not just to make cash payments to Americans,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) told Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo on Monday.
Bartiromo then told him: “It sounds like you would vote ‘no’ in terms of $2,000 checks going to individuals.”
He added that “we can’t afford it” and that he wishes the U.S. government was “in a position to return the American public their money, but we’re not.”…