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Fortune
Eleanor Pringle

Odds of President Trump paying out $2,000 tariff rebate checks now sit at 2%

Donald Trump (Credit: IM WATSON/AFP - Getty Images)

If the White House handing out $2,000 checks to all U.S. citizens sounded too good to be true, it just might be. At least, that’s now the sentiment among bettors.

Earlier this month, President Trump made an official promise of a “dividend” payable to all Americans. Posting on Truth Social, the social media platform he owns, the president wrote that tariff opponents were “fools” and added: “record investment in the USA, plants and factories going up all over the place.” He continued: “A dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone.”

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