Republican lawmakers are pushing back on President Trump’s idea of $2,000 tariff checks – raising concerns about the risks to inflation, national debt and the need for congressional approval.

Trump has vowed to issue the payments to most Americans sometime before the 2026 midterms, using revenue from his massive slew of tariffs.

“We’re going to be doing a dividend to the people, low- and middle-, moderate-income people, of at least $2,000,” he said Wednesday.

But as national debt surpasses $37 trillion and nears a record high, Republicans are questioning why tariff revenue would be used for stimulus payments instead of paying down the debt.

“I thought we were using the tariffs to retire the debt,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) told The Wall Street Journal . “This would seem to be counter

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