During the shutdown, President Donald Trump proposed several financial policies, including $2,000 tariff "dividend" payments, $10,000 bonuses for air traffic controllers , and 50-year mortgages to reduce monthly payments, raising questions about their feasibility and financial impact.

Tariff Dividends

In one Truth Social post , Trump promised Americans a $2,000 "dividend" payment from the tariff revenue he said his administration has collected.

He did not, however, specify who might qualify or how they would be paid. There are also questions about how much tariff revenue is currently available to make those payments.

According to our partners at PolitiFact , if these dividends were distributed to the 150 million adults earning less than $100,000 annually, it would cost nearly $

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