President Donald Trump spent the second half of 2025 and early 2026 raising support for his controversial tariff policy by touting that nearly every American adult would receive a $2,000 dividend check directly from tariff profits.
While the timeline for these $2,000 payouts has been murky, President Trump insisted they were coming. However, that was before the Supreme Court ruled on Feb. 20 that Trump never had the authority to issue his tariffs in the first place.
