If tariffs are paid by foreign countries and don't hurt American consumers, as Trump has repeatedly claimed, then why do we need rebate checks? www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
First to NBC News: Hawley pledged to sponsor legislation after President Donald Trump expressed interest in sending out rebate checks last week.
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Also they are playing to his base of trailer dwellers living off the government. Does anyone else feel we can be bought for $600? More proof they have no idea how the average American is struggling today! Hold your 600 and invest in affordable housing, die payments for young people, increase SS.
We the people paid these billions...and he knows it.
What is the point of the tariffs then?
www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
Independent Can Co. has raised prices twice this year already after Trump imposed 25% duties on steel in March and then doubled them in June.
Agreed.
And they are looking to whip out the US Credit card to buy better polling numbers.
Eliminate the tariffs, tax the rich and raise the social security cap.
If I get a check, it will be given to a charity. I will not accept it.
They throw money around to shut people up and they sue to take money away from people who don't fall to their knees. It is truly despicable. Unfortunately, poor people NEED money so they look at getting a check and equate it to how "great" Trump is as president
Hawley voted for crappy bill. Now he wants us to expand the deficit so his voters still trust him?
Plus where are the staff members to issue those checks since everyone was fired.
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Oh, that $5,000 stimulus that never materialized again??!! 😳🙄🙄🙄
Because Dump doesn't understand a fucking thing. At all.
Hawley only wants the ‘rebates’ to go to MAGA Republicans. They have nothing to do with tariffs … they’re bribes, in the hope that the base will forget all about the kiddie diddler in the White House.
Good question.
Take bribes. Pay bribes. GOP is all about bribes and who can bribe who now.
Just cancel the f'ing tax cuts for the wealthy. It's so much easier than trying to nibble around the edges of all the cuts to services and support for ordinary people.
I have a better idea…
They know poor people love shit like this!
We exempted planes/jets. Does that include all military sales too? Was this trade agreement a way to run military equipment through EU to Ukraine? EU just rerouted their purchasing of LNG from RU to US? They didn’t increase their budget
www.politico.eu/article/eus-...
The extra investments pledged under the trade deal would come from private companies, which Brussels conceded it has no power to control.
Why do we have higher prices then? Are corporations just getting greedy? No…we, the American people, are paying the tariffs plus some extra because companies can blame getting extra money on tariffs.
LOL 😭😭😭
And yet here we are...more whitewashing of a situation hoping Americans won't notice!
Excellent Question. Why then, Mr Hawley?
All this makes no sense. It would be better if Congress just did their jobs and prevented these destructive taxes, I mean tariffs. As it were, this legislation is just moving money from one hand to the other but then you are adding additional costs to the taxpayer to make this happen.
why don’t we just skip the taking money from americans part?
If tariffs will not reduce debt, why should foreigners buy US debts? Let US bond yield skyrocket
I won't hold my breath.
@rbreich.bsky.social asking from my heart: Why are Americans so stupid? So easily duped? So financially illiterate? Please: help us understand.
Any change that Missouri NOT reelect this fraud?
Been there done that. I can only think of two reasons this makes sense
Let’s show him what to do reject the Big Ugly Bill
You mean "Running from the insurrectionists he incited" Josh Hawley? That guy?
Is this the beginning of the SPIN if they lose the tariff appeal? The government didn’t lose, they WON! The government's tariff plan worked out so well here's some money so you too can join in the success of these tariffs! And Congress will take over tariffs now as we planned all along...🙄
If there's no Epstein list, why is Jizzlane in jail?
Liars trying very hard to gaslight their base!
Groceries are so high now that a pot roast that would feed one or two people is now $25.00 it used to be the lowest price because it’s a tough cut of beef!
Josh Hawley. Had to run from those J6ers like a chickenshit. Why run from “peaceful tourists?” Now, MAGAt lawmakers want to destroy hundreds of thousands of lives-and share their spoils of jobs and services slashed? Bribe us to shut up? Fuck your money and you! And we are voting your asses out!🖕
10% rebate, 90% for the big guys plane. Maga, YES, great deal!
It's the GOP's scam to try and get Americans to believe the lie that the tariffs are working to their benefit, even if that means spending truckloads of more tax dollars to send out "rebate checks" & to persuade them to feel good about Trump ("free" money).
What happened to the $5,000 DOGE checks?
Buying votes adding to deficit. How about investing in America? Medicare for all Federal minimum wage $15 Green new deal (creates jobs!) Forgive student debt (it’s in the Bible) A job guarantee program Subsidize childcare
Sarcasm aside, this is the most expensive and self destructive way to lose money I've ever seen.
Seriously!? 🙄
I thought the people screaming about waste-fraud-abuse wanted to eliminate it, not create more of it.
Fuck off Hawley. Don’t you have a hallway to run down somewhere?
Buying votes? It would be better to cancel the d*mn tariff charade.
What's the point of tariffs if Trump is going give rebate cheques?
Maybe he actually thinks America is making money from tariffs.
And, aren't rebate checks paid for by our taxes? So we're taxing ourselves to pay ourselves back for the taxes we paid? Could we just cut out the middle man and, like, not?
I know, how about stop the stupid tariff bullshit. Stop taxing us on goods and stop trying to bullshit us with lies. Josh please stick my $600 up your ass, you are all thieves.
Indeed, if the tariffs were truly free for American consumers, there would be no need for rebate checks. The very existence of these checks proves that, despite Trump’s claims, American households are indeed feeling the impact.
Time to get out in front of this with the message that the tariffs are raising your bills way more than this and they are just returning YOUR money due to their bad policies. Otherwise, it gets played as the president reaches into his personal bank account and gave Americans cash.
We have had these in place in Canada for some time now. They are modest and directly tied to income level. They don’t change your life, they are a few hundred dollars every quarter. What he is suggesting is a rebate on bad tariff wars and decisions that penalize Americans every day who pay them.
The Congress is insane - the GOP claims to be fiscally responsible but now they want to drop more money from the sky, putting us deeper in debt? What a joke - typical Trump! I bet he will want the checks to have his name on them as well!
now they're bribing voters
This is getting crazier by the minute...
If TFG claims anything, then it's another complete lie
We've been told that "everyone" else is paying the tariffs, not Americans, so why would we need a rebate check, Josh? 🤔
IKR! 🤔
$4,000,000,000,000 added to the deficit by the party of fiscal responsibility. Here’s your flimsy little check, citizen.
I’m getting neck pain watching these guys go back and forth …
Oh please …
It’s the end of their nose … they can’t see beyond it … all they can do is react to the consequences of their BAD decisions or most recent crime reveal …
I posted this last week.
Doesn’t the word “rebate” imply that the CONSUMER is paying the tariffs??? These guys really need to get their lying shit together, lol.
Because Trump really only cares about Trump, and enriching his personal fortune on Government time. Not much else is really important to him!
Hawley is a moron. Apologies to America.
He knows the his days are numbered….😉 He voted to throw 40% of his constituents off of Medicaid….
"Lt. Colonel Jessup, if you gave an order that Santiago wasn't to be touched, and your orders are always followed, then why would Santiago be in danger?"
He voted for the big beautiful bill, never forget that
We want to be able to go to work We want our neighbors not to be snatched up off the street We don't need crumbs from this government we've paid too much into this government to be getting crumbs . We want our country back the way it was We don't want white Christian nationalism to rule .
Americans would be fools to want this , where's the health care, where are civil rights , where's affordable housing, stop setting for crumbs , and as mentioned, this is our taxes , they aren't giving us anything, wake up !!!
So will they send them everyday or every week , this sounds absurd especially when you had the power to shut down the bill . On my block , we call this "hustling backwards." Smfh . They really think we are fools , his desperation is akin to trumps Epstein files corruption.
What a crock! Hawley trying to bothways it. He's a coward!
Their money is blood stained and tainted by their support of hatred and sexual violence toward women and children. Even if a world existed where this $ would actually be given( that world doesn’t exist), I sure as hell would not accept anything given by these “people”
They know what they’re doing 🙄
Remember when it was proposed that we tax fossil fuels heavily and give a dividend back to the American people? Because they basically called that communism.
This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
Good X purchased by US importer for Y price. US importer pays 15% tax to US govt. Consumer pays Z price + 15% (offset from importer). US govt gives consumer 15% back.
It's just a big loop at that point. Why even have the tariff? It does nothing.
Don't "overthink" this.
When will people stop calling them Tariffs and start calling them for what they are to consumers?
#RepublicanImportTaxes
Trump couldn't do this unless Republican Cowards in Congress abandoned their responsibilities
Make them own it. Call them
#RepublicanImportTaxes
He looks like Pee-wee Herman – except not as cute nor as charming! Fjh
What happened to the $5k DOGE checks? 😆
I hate Hawley.
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Yet he voted for the tariffs. This is just an attempt to stay in the good graces of his constituents.
Doesn’t Congress have to authorize this in a spending bill.
One stupid $600 check would solve nothing. These assholes think we are idiots!
He's so incredibly obtuse...
is that the same #HighTailItHawley from the Capitol Bldg on #Jan6th???
What a stupid idea and waste of government spending? Need to have term limits for pols!
“Solving” the problem that Republicans created is par for the course.
These Republican cowards
If tariffs don’t hurt American consumers, why is Trump so against companies putting a pre-tariff price next to the current price?
Make it make sense.
Hey asswipe! Just assert Congress’ authority and end the tariff bullshit. Period. Full Stop.
And the projected cost increase for Americans with the current tariff rates?
How the fuck is it conservative to impose tariff taxes on Americans and then have the federal government send them rebate checks to reimburse them.
Ronald Reagan would spank the hell out of these fuckwads.
(Not touting Reagan, just noting that he would have been appalled by this fiscal idiocy.)
aka "buy votes"
Just another disingenuous ploy by the party destroying America
Bet you also thought Josh lives in Missouri.
Word.
Tariff rebate checks? So we're paying ourselves???
Spot on
COVERING FOR TRUMP…….SENATORS ARE SPENDING THEIR TIME AND OUR MONEY APPEASING OR COVERING FOR TRUMP’S INCOMPETENCE OR COGNITIVE DECLINE
Good question Robert!
What a bunch of cons and grifters. They know creating a rebate pot of money is a huge slush fund for Felon Trump and the repubs.
None of this makes any sense. Trump's ignorance has been excused and his insanity coddled, while he's lined his pockets and distracted from his own crimes and those of his cronies. Just wtf. How do we get out of this mess and start taking care of the American people again?
To bribe the rubes.
take it away from you, hand it back to you, brag about it
What a chicken shit move. Hawley could just call for a roll back of the Trump tarrifs, but he can avoid offending dear leader with this Rube Goldberg style of policy making.
What about the damage down to small businesses?
You tax people and then try to bribe them with the stolen money.!????
Let me guess, the checks will be sent in October of 2026 prior to the mid-term elections and if the Dems Win the GOP will immediately run in 2028 on the “National Debt That’s Out of Control! Will someone please think of the children!”
No one should ever allow Republicans to say they are the party of fiscal responsibility. They just keep adding to debt whenever Trump is in office
What on earth is the logic here? The government foots the tariff bill, defeating the entire purpose of a tariff?
“If you don’t play by our rules, we’ll make your product so expensive it’ll kill demand. But then we’ll turn around and undercut ourselves, having absolutely no impact on demand.”
?! Are we saving coupons now?
This country is now being run by muppets. Just pure insanity.
Tariffs are a new tax on Americans who live pay check to pay check: at least 40% of the pop'n
That group survives because the US is a low wage/low price economy
The low price bit is (was) "part of the deal"
Changing that equation will be catastrophic for them
It'll take about 1yr to really hurt
Yup
now they want to bribe us with peanuts while they gouge us with everything else and take away our health care. seriously ? alot of us are not that dumb. everything is jacked up at the food store and it will get worse as this big pos bill becomes law.
JFC, I don’t want a “rebate”. I want my functioning government back.
Both Trump and Proj2025 focus on areas many are unfamiliar with. Classic con man.
Our reps should inform themselves and then us on these areas - but classroom like, not the usual "He says, GOP says" manner.
Inexcusable that Congress only now beginning to learn about what they've already supported
They’re all such reprehensible liars.
Also, how do we off set deficit-spending if they’re passing them on to Americans? It’s almost like everything is a lie.
Truly wish I could say treating people like idiots was a bad political move, but it’s been wildly successful these past few years.
This will work but it's too early. There are still plenty of people who are pissed that the D's ran in 2020 with the promise of $2000 but then changed their tune once in power and deducted the $600 trump had " given them" from the stimulus checks.
Trump Tariffs 'rebate'
Give people tax rebates for the tax you just voted to tax them?
If the DNC had helped Kunce and pushed for him over an Anheuser-Busch heiress...we might not have Hawley.
But, the DNC had to choose one of the Ultra wealthy rather than supporting a veteran.
I don’t need one, but I want one. I wonder how many demofacists will refuse theirs?
Hawley is becoming the Republican Sinema...and I don't hate it.
Fuckyou josh hawley,
Sounds fishy. Our taxes pay for these checks. So NOW what service are you cutting to GIVE us our rebates?
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Exactly!
Where will the money come from? Take it from the $934 million orange blob stole from the budget to retrofit the plane, his bribe from Qatar.
Is there a special US Treasury account where we can hear the ca-chings of coins from the tariffs Trump keeps saying he can hear?
Ever heard the term “digging a hole so you can fill it”? That’s what this whole 6 months feels like
Let’s be real: MAGAts are so dumb that they’ll be unable to do the math. They think paying thousands more for goods but getting a crappy $500 rebate means they’re winning!!!
The GOP has always known their base are idiots who will believe whatever narrative you sell them.
VAT tax, that is what he is creating, European countries had them for years
this idiot truly believes $600 will make up for the increased costs of these bullshit tariffs? fuck him, and his math teacher...
Isn't this just "robbing Peter to pay Paul" except we're both Peter AND Paul?
They want to double tax us so they can claim we are getting a rebate...FROM OUR OWN WALLET! And I'll bet your bottom dollar that all but the top 1% end up poorer from this scam! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_rob_...
More performative BS from hawley, just like he pretends to care about people losing Medicaid (he voted for cuts anyway). It’s called speaking out both sides of the mouth.
Tariffs + this.
Inflation is about to feast
Another way to tax people, then redistribute more wealth upward through rebates.
Ahahahaha yeah sure
Thank you!
Kind of convoluted.
Tariffs are a regressive national sales tax paid for the billionairres tax breaks. #TrickleDownHasNeverWorked
With all due respect, that's too complicated for you, Sir.
His uncle had a professor in three subjects...
Apparently, this political hack is up for reelection.
I’m guessing they’ll only be for republicans
MAGA blowhards, believe that if they destroy all scientific knowledge and research, then everyone will have to believe their religion, which can be defined by whatever they say. God believes you should believe too. The dark ages is the past they long for.
Lying is in their DNA. I just paid $9 for a pound of ground beef.
Because he knows that the American people are going to be paying for the tariffs in the form of taxes
Instead of rebate checks, wouldn't it be easier to just eliminate tariffs?
Did you issue a Code Red?
Oh, forms to fill? Gee, have they laid off folks at the IRS? The fraud will be delicious.
Seems like a lot of work .. why not just get rid of the problem by eliminating the tariffs in the first place..?
So we tax US people then send the $ back to them? Sounds a bit ... what's that 3 word phrase; Musk was using it a lot a few months ago. How's that go again ...
If the $600 scheme actually wiped out the impact of the tariffs on the American consumer and the economy, then why bother doing either? It seems like a spoonful of sugar to make the medicine go down. It won't. Tariffs will still take down part of the world economy, isolate the US, hurt US producers.
Shhh, we are supposed to all yell, 'YAY'!
No crappy rebate check will make up for the endless pain of the culture war the Trump administration is waging on America, its people and its friends.
Where is the architect of all this? RUSSELL VOUGHT?
Horseface Jawley trying to erase his vote for the Big Shitty Wealthy Taxcut.
Who will pay tariffs?
Yr 1 - Consumer 3+% Yr 2- Consumer 3+% Yr 3 - Consumer 3+% Yr 4 - Consumer 3+% Yr 5 - Consumer 3+%
And so on, until companies recoup margins.
Wasting more money. Opposite of efficiency.
Big government handouts.
As is typical of “Haul Ass”Hawley, this meaningless bill is to make MAGA think they’re actually going to get something for free. The “handouts” they pretend hate. All that socialism. 🙄
because some voters saw his name on checks they received in the past and voted for him for that. Also thinking it will help him and R's in the midterms...and of course try and deflect from Epstein.
Or why not use the “proceeds” to pay down national debt or bolster Social Security?
Wheat and corn farmers already are getting “price adjustments” cuz of foreign markets drying up IYKYK
"Here's your $100 rebate cheque if you make over 100k a year"
Because Trump and the GOP numbers are down and their base will respond positively to a rebate check with his big goofy signature on it.
To make America forget about…where are those Epstein pedoFiles, Donald?
Because the maga-philes will see this as pedo-one being correct. They are slightly on the lower end of intelligenxe
Could he have possibly lied? 🤔
The circular firing squad is warming up.
Oh Josh Hawley ! The hypocrisy!
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I thought the other countries were paying the tariffs?
I paid 39$ shipping fee for A 23$ ornament from UK Fuck all these maggotts
The more important question is what is the point of tariffs at all if we just give them back to ourselves. Why are Republican voters so clueless?
Why is this asshole trying to save face now? What's in it for him? He could have stopped all of this but punked out.
Food stamps MK 2.0
Have you thought maybe they are just proposing to give the American people back a portion of the money that has been saved from OTHER countries actually paying their fair share? Ala DOGE cuts 2.0...🤷
Mr. Reich, please comment about the government not counting “price adjustments” in the inflation data. Are increases in prices due to tariffs going to be shown anywhere?
What will these rebate checks do to the national debt, since the debt is such a concern?
US tariffs are an attempt to reduce taxes for (wealthy) TRump by shifting them to the US general population and foreigners. If producers, distributors, or retailers lower their margins they are paying a share of the tariff. If Canadian exporters lower their prices, we are essentially paying US taxes
And the money for the rebate checks comes from… where else but your taxes!
Josh, Josh, Josh!!! You are an idiot.
MAGA strat: "let's create a problem so it looks like we are fixing the problem"
I thought GOP were against socialist programs?
Fuck you and your shiny object rebates
Excellent question!
Eliminate the tariffs!
