(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump and some GOP lawmakers have repeatedly floated the idea of sharing some of the government's tariff revenue with taxpayers, but the White House said no checks are in the mail.

Trump said in an interview that he was considering sending Americans checks for between $1,000 and $2,000 from the tariff revenue.

"We're going to do something, we're looking at something. No. 1, we're paying down debt. Because people have allowed the debt to go crazy," the president told OAN. "We'll pay back debt, but we also might make a distribution to the people, almost like a dividend to the people of America."

The president said the $37 trillion national debt is "very little, relatively speaking" because the government is raking in tariff revenue.

Trump has said t

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