The POTUS is not a serious person:
"The 'Pay Back' Numbers being quoted by the Radical Left Lunatics, who would love to see us lose on Tariffs because of how bad it would be for our Country, are much higher than those being stated by our Fake Opposition," Trump insisted in a Monday post on Truth Social. "The actual Number we would have to pay back in Tariff Revenue and Investments would be in excess of $2 Trillion Dollars, and that, in itself, would be a National Security catastrophe."
A) where does the money come from? The tariff shelf? General revenues? A subquestion: how is it accounted for, and the amount calculated?
B) Who is the money paid to? China? The European Union? The penguins on that uninhabited island? "To Whom It May Concern: Thank you for your attention to this matter"? Where the socks go in the dryer?
C) Okay, three questions: what makes Trump think he's on the hook for doing all this? It has to be authorized by Congress: plain and simple. So far as I know, Congress has yet to identify, much less designate, the "tariff shelf."
In a possible attempt to get Americans on board with his tariffs, Trump suggested he might give some people a "dividend of at least $2000 a person." Those checks were expected to total around $326 billion.
However, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer recently told Fox News that the U.S. had collected only about $100 billion under Trump's "reciprocal" tariffs since he took office.
Alright, that dividend definitely has to be authorized by Congress. And even Trump's US Trade Representative says the tariffs haven't brought in $2 trillion. Maybe she hasn't looked on the tariff shelf, though.
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