President Donald Trump said that Americans could be paid a $2,000 dividend, according to a report from ABC7 News .

On Sunday morning, Trump floated the idea on Truth social, saying that a dividend of “at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone,” according to the report.

The payments are possible, ABC reports, because of wealth that Trump says was created by his tariff policies.

“People that are against Tariffs are FOOLS! We are now the Richest, Most Respected Country In the World, With Almost No Inflation, and A Record Stock Market Price,” Trump wrote in the post.

But while speaking with ABC news later that morning, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that the $2,000 “could come in lots of forms,” including just in tax decreases, the outlet

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