The White House is looking at what the appropriate amount should be of any tariff rebate being contemplated, according to U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer.
He told Fox’s The Sunday Briefing that President Trump’s idea to issue tariff rebates was still in the planning. Trump has floated an idea to pay $2,000. With tax filing season starting next month and the filing deadline in April, Americans are wondering when any check might be coming.
Greer said the administration is still mulling how to go about any rebates, and whether it’s something that needs to involve Congress.
“Secretary [Scott] Bessent and Treasury they kind of have the pot of money over there and they work with Congress on how to allocate it and that kind of thing,” Greer said on the show. “And your questions are the right ones to be asking, and it’s under consideration the White House right now.”
Greer said tariffs are going to be part of the Trump administration’s policies. The White House is waiting on a Supreme Court decision on whether the tariffs it imposed using emergency powers are valid.
The looming Supreme Court decision was on President Trump’s mind on Sunday. He posted about it on his social media account, saying the current way he has imposed tariffs–the very thing the Court is considering–is more direct, faster, and less cumbersome than other ways the administration could impose tariffs.
Trump, characteristically using a mix of all capital letters and regular spelling to make his point, said on the post: “all ingredients necessary for A STRONG AND DECISIVE NATIONAL SECURITY RESULT. SPEED, POWER, AND CERTAINTY ARE, AT ALL TIMES, IMPORTANT FACTORS IN GETTING THE JOB DONE.”
“It’s real revenue,” Greer told Fox, adding that between Trump’s tax bill, expectations of a bigger tax base, and the tariffs, the administration will find a way to give some of that back to Americans. “I don’t know the specific final number will be,” he said, “but I think that the economy is growing at such a rate and the tariff program will continue such that the president lots of options.”
