{"id":363170,"date":"2025-12-22T06:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T06:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/363170\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T06:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T06:18:10","slug":"2000-checks-to-americans-depend-on-this-says-director-of-the-national-economic-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/363170\/","title":{"rendered":"$2,000 checks to Americans depend on this, says Director of the National Economic Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(WKRC) &#8211; Director of the National Economic Council Kevin Hassett said President Donald Trump\u2019s proposal to issue $2,000 checks to Americans using tariff revenue would depend on congressional approval, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/kevin-hassett-white-house-trump-tariff-checks-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CBS News<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking Sunday on &#8220;Face the Nation,\u201d Hassett said Trump is expected to present a proposal to Congress in the new year to advance the plan.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has floated the idea of a rebate for some Americans funded by tariff revenue. Last month, he wrote on social media that a \u201cdividend of at least $2,000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the checks would likely be limited to households earning less than $100,000, though he said the proposal remains under discussion.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News reported that Hassett said congressional approval would be required for the funds, which would likely be distributed through the tax code and require new legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Hassett said the funds could come from tariff revenue but emphasized that Congress ultimately controls federal spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WKRC) &#8211; Director of the National Economic Council Kevin Hassett said President Donald Trump\u2019s proposal to issue $2,000&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":{"0":"post-363170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}