President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he is considering the possibility of sending refund checks To Americans using revenue from the duties increases that its government imposes on US trade partners.

“We’re really thinking of this – we have so much money coming, we think of a little refund”, Trump told reporters on Friday at the White House as he left for a trip to Scotland. ‘A little refund for people with a certain level of income It can be very nice. “

Trump also suggested that the use of US debt revenue was another option, adding that “the big thing we want to do is repay the debt. But we are thinking of a refund. “

US revenue from customs duties for the current financial year they overcame For the first time the $ 100 billion pointing out the highest duties that Trump has imposed on his attempt to reshape world trade flows and bring more processing to the US.

US Treasury figures show that customs duties have actually launched record levels, with inputs reaching $ 113 billion during nine months by June. Finance Minister Scott Bessed said on Tuesday that there is a chance that they will be collected $ 2.8 trillion in a period of a decade.

While customs duties are boosting US revenue and Trump regularly presents duties as payable from foreign commercial partners, evidence shows that these increases are being taken by US companies and consumers, however, Bloomberg says.

Also the influx of these revenue would be up to compared to US budget deficits. The deficit for the first nine months of the financial year 2025 amounted to $ 1.34 trillion, slightly increased compared to the same period a year ago. Congress’s independent budget office pointed out earlier this week that Trump’s new tax law will add 3.4 trillion dollars in deficits in the next decade.

In January, Congress’s budget office warned that the government was on track to arrive In a post -war record of debt to GDP in just four years. These were forecasts that assumed that the tax cuts would end at the end of the year, and not that they would be extended and added others, as it was later in the “big beautiful bill” that Trump signed this month.