Republican senator Josh Hawley presented the legislation on Monday to provide tariff reimbursements of at least $ 600 per adult and child to US families, similar to The stimulus verifies the government distributed during the Covid pandemic.
Hawley presented his legislation after committing to do so on Friday after President Donald Trump’s comment to journalists who would be interested in sending a reimbursement check related to the Americans.
“As President Trump proposed, my legislation would allow worker Americans to benefit from the wealth that Trump’s tariffs are returning to this country,” said Hawley in a statement.
Hawley, who defended the stimulus control legislation with Senator Bernie Sanders, I-VT., In the middle of the Covid Pandemia in 2020, he was the author of his new bill to echo that past effort. The program would be established as a reimbursable fiscal loan, with the government by sending checks this year in the event that the bill advances through Congress and obtains the Trump signature. The invoice would ensure that the amount provided to each adult and dependent child is at least $ 600. It also allows a larger reimbursement per person in case the tariff income exceeds the projections.
The bill reduces reimbursement by 5% for joint filing archivators that have adjusted the gross income of more than $ 150,000, a householder whose income exceeds $ 112,500 and an individual taxpayer whose income exceeds $ 75,000.
The Department of the Treasury reported earlier this month that customs tariffs totaled around $ 27 billion for June, an increase of approximately $ 4 billion as of May. But June also saw that inflation rose slightly when Trump tariffs of great reach began to work through the US economy. The Independent Fiscal Foundation projected that Trump rates would raise $ 2.5 billion in revenue during the next decade, but, through price increases, taxes effectively increase in the average household of the USA. UU. In almost $ 1,300 this year and almost $ 1,700 in 2026, in case they remain in full effect.
Hawley’s bill has a long way ahead before he can become law. Earlier this year, the president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, Republican of the LA-LA., Veró Cold Agua in different proposals to send direct checks to the Americans. Johnson’s comments were in response to the idea of a “Dividend Dux” check, where the Government would send a part of the savings created by the so -called Government’s efficiency department directly to US taxpayers. But Dege stayed well below the projection of the then leader Elon Musk of up to $ 2 billion in savings, and Musk has broken with Trump after leaving the administration in May.
