Over the weekend, President Donald Trump suggested paying Americans directly for their health-care costs and sending tariff rebate checks to families, not unlike the stimulus payments issued during the Covid-19 pandemic.

In a Truth Social post on Saturday, Trump wrote , "Republicans should give money DIRECTLY to your personal HEALTH SAVINGS ACCOUNTS."

The president also floated the idea that a tariff "dividend" was possible. "A dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone," he wrote in another post Sunday on Truth Social.

Later that day, in an interview with ABC News, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that he had not discussed the idea of a tariff rebate with the president and that there were no specific proposals

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