The President of the United States announced the new economic measure through the social network Truth Social
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President Donald Trump announced this Sunday a new economic measure with a direct impact on American citizens: the payment of a "tariff dividend" of $2,000 per person, with the goal of returning to the people part of the revenue caused by tariffs imposed on imported products from almost all countries.
The announcement, made through Truth Social, was presented by the president as recognition of the success of his trade policy and as a way to compensate Americans for their support of a stronger and fairer economy.
Trump explained that the measure will not include high-income taxpayers, focusing on working families and the middle class, the sectors that have benefited the most from his economic policy.
La medida económica consiste en la entrega de un dividendo de 2.000 dólares por persona, destinado a la clase media
In his post, the president emphasized that tariffs have caused billions of dollars for the State's coffers, without causing inflation or affecting consumption. "401(k) accounts are at their highest point in history and there is no inflation resulting from tariffs," he stated.
The president firmly defended his strategy, stating that critics of tariffs "are fools" who do not understand the benefits of an economy based on the recovery of industrial and financial sovereignty.
For Trump, tariffs in this case are not only a tool of trade pressure, but also a source of national revenue that allows for reducing dependence on public debt and strengthening citizens' purchasing power.
The imposition of import duties on countries with which the United States maintained a deficit in its trade balance has been a necessary measure to repair national accounts.
Trump defendió la imposición de las medidas arancelarias a países con balanza comercial deficitaria
According to data from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, the government has collected approximately $151 billion in import duties between April and October. Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent projected that collections could exceed $500 billion annually, an unprecedented figure that supports the viability of the dividend program announced by the president.
Trump has defended since the beginning of his term the idea that in cases like this, tariffs are not a cost for Americans, but an instrument of economic justice, through which countries that benefit from access to the American market contribute directly to the well-being of the country's workers.
In this sense, the proposal to distribute part of that revenue as a direct bonus to each citizen symbolizes his vision of "patriotic capitalism," in which the fruits of global trade must first benefit the American people.
Despite doubts expressed by some sectors about the legality of using emergency powers to apply broad tariffs, Trump insisted that his administration acts within the constitutional framework and that his priority is the economic well-being of families.
Scott Bessent aseguró que la recaudación podría llegar a superar los 500.000 millones de dólares
