Donald Trump has been all over the news recently after claiming that he's going to give almost every American citizen $2,000, but what if we told you that it could actually be more?
Exciting news, right?
First off - is Donald Trump really going to give most Americans $2,000
The answer to that question - as with nearly all Trump-related questions - is ‘it depends who you ask’.
Trump says that he’ll give nearly everyone in the USA $2,000 as a result of his tariffs, with those on lower to moderate wages getting the payout.
Skeptics say that it could actually be a bad thing, that it will simply never happen, or that citizens have already met the cost through the price rises relating to those tariffs.
But Trump and his allies remain adamant that they’ll be giving out some kind of dividend, and that most Americans will be eligible.
One thing that still isn't totally clear is the amount, and that’s what makes things interesting.
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Could the dividend check be more than $2,000?
In short, that $2,000 figure is one that everyone has latched onto after Trump first spoke on the matter.
In truth, during a meeting on Wednesday at the US-Saudi Arabia Investment Forum, Trump said that his government is working towards delivering checks of "at least $2,000".
There you have it - it could actually be more.
Again, whether you believe that depends on what side of the fence you sit on, but those are the words from Trump himself.
To give the full quote, he said: “We're going to be doing a dividend to the people — low and middle income, moderate income people — of at least $2,000.”
The actual details of the plan are somewhat murky.
To start with, the checks would require an act of Congress to be passed in order to come into reality, meaning that an amount would have to be agreed between both the House and Senate.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that the money would be for working families and would have an income limit, which may also have an effect on the overall amount.
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Several economists have argued that the math - well - doesn’t math, but Bessent has also moved to encourage Americans to consider saving any potential dividend to avoid some of the inflation that could come from slipping $2,000 or more into millions of people's pockets
He linked the tariff dividents to the so-called ‘Trump Accounts’ that were discussed in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, investment accounts for kids born between 2025 to 2028.
During an interview on Fox News, he said: "Maybe we could persuade Americans to save that.
“Because one of the things that's going to happen next year.”
As ever with Trump, we’ll just have to wait and see.