Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday that President Donald Trump’s proposal to send $2,000 tariff payments to certain U.S. residents would require legislation, while he believes the Supreme Court won’t rule against the administration on the legality of the tariffs.
“We will see. We need legislation for that,” Bessent said when asked about the rebates during an interview with Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” adding the tariff checks would go to “working families.”
Starting earlier this month, Trump has repeatedly suggested that his tariffs could be used to fund the dividend payments and added that low- and middle-income people would be eligible. The president first floated the idea in July….