Britt says Senate should 'take a look' at $2K tariff checks [View all]

Source: The Hill

11/16/25 5:07 PM ET


Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) said Sunday that the Senate should “take a look” at legislation providing $2,000 tariff checks to Americans, a week after President Trump backed such a proposal.

“I sure hope that we take a look at these types of things and how we can make sure that the American people have more of their hard-earned money back in their pocket,” Britt told host Maria Bartiromo on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures.”

Last week, President Trump proposed sending at least $2,000 to most Americans via revenue collected from his sweeping tariffs. The president added that his administration will pay down the $38.12 trillion national debt using collected duties, which totaled $195 billion during the first three quarters of this year, according to the Treasury Department’s September statement.

The tariffs, which the administration defended in front of the Supreme Court earlier this month, have resulted in firms passing on some costs to customers. As of Oct. 17, consumers are facing an average effective tariff rate of 18 percent, the highest since 1934, according to the Yale Budget Lab.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5608354-britt-hawley-tariff-debate/