{"id":2511239,"date":"2025-11-16T15:40:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T20:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scalise-says-congress-to-have-robust-debate-over-2000-tariff-rebates\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T15:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T20:41:11","slug":"scalise-says-congress-to-have-robust-debate-over-2000-tariff-rebates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scalise-says-congress-to-have-robust-debate-over-2000-tariff-rebates\/","title":{"rendered":"Scalise says Congress to have &#8216;robust debate&#8217; over $2,000 tariff rebates"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fscalise-says-congress-to-have-robust-debate-over-2000-tariff-rebates%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2511239&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>House Majority Leader Steve Scalise stated that Congress will engage in a &#8220;robust debate&#8221; regarding former President Donald Trump&#8217;s proposal to provide $2,000 tariff rebates to Americans, aimed at <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >redistributing teh revenue collected<\/a> from tariffs. Scalise did not confirm whether there will be a direct vote on the proposal, suggesting rather that some lawmakers prefer using the tariff revenue to reduce the federal deficit. He emphasized that lowering the deficit could help reduce interest rates and inflation,ultimately benefiting families by making home purchases more affordable.<\/p>\n<p>Trump had promised that individuals outside of &#8220;high-income&#8221; brackets would receive at least $2,000 from the tariff revenue. However, some skepticism exists about the sustainability of these tariff revenues, especially as new trade agreements are reached.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the tariff rebate plan, Trump proposed reforming healthcare funding by sending Obamacare funds directly to consumers to enable the purchase of better, more affordable healthcare plans. Scalise indicated that Congress would act on healthcare affordability measures soon.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration is also considering new tariff exemptions, particularly aimed at lowering food prices by removing tariffs on certain natural resources and agricultural goods not produced domestically. Nonetheless, some experts caution that such tariff rebate programs could perhaps contribute to inflation, drawing parallels with stimulus spending after the COVID-19 pandemic.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Scalise says Congress to have &lsquo;robust debate&rsquo; over Trump&rsquo;s $2,000 tariff rebates<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2399957\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) did not specify if Congress will vote on President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/3888701\/trump-indiana-republicans-redistricting\/\">Donald Trump<\/a>&rsquo;s proposed $2,000 <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3885872\/white-house-trade-agreements-argentina-el-salvador-ecuador-guatemala\/\">tariff<\/a> rebates, suggesting an alternative option would be to lower the nation&rsquo;s deficit.<\/p>\n<p>Trump promised last week that everyone outside of &ldquo;high-income&rdquo; earners will receive <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3882706\/trump-2000-dollar-tariff-dividend-checks-how-rebate-payments-could-work\/\">&ldquo;a dividend of at least $2,000 a person&rdquo;<\/a> from his tariffs, which were announced earlier this year. Scalise said there is a &ldquo;robust debate&rdquo; over what to do with the United States&rsquo;s tariff revenue, adding that &ldquo;a lot&rdquo; of people don&rsquo;t think it&rsquo;ll be long-term as Trump is reaching new trade agreements.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3888716\/massie-trump-investigation-epstein-files\/\">Massie says Trump investigating Epstein &#8216;hoax&#8217; a &#8216;last-ditch effort&#8217; to stop release of files<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3888688\/mtg-trump-maga-movement-epstein-israel\/\">MTG questions if Trump still represents MAGA movement, weighs Epstein as Israeli asset<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3888672\/johnson-arctic-frost-provision-thune\/\">Johnson changes tune on &#8216;Arctic Frost&#8217; funding bill provision after speaking to Thune<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;So one point of a lot of discussion was to use that tariff revenue to reduce the deficit, and I think everybody would agree reducing the deficit lowers interest rates, it lowers inflation. Taking all of that money that Washington borrows off the table and no longer borrowing hundreds of billions of dollars in this case would actually be good for the entire economy and put more money in the pockets of families who are struggling in terms of lower inflation and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-to-stop-inflation-from-hurting-americas-working-and-middle-class\/\" title=\"How To Stop Inflation From Hurting America\u2019s Working And Middle Class\">lower interest rates<\/a> for people that want to go buy a home, buy a new home, first-time home buyers,&rdquo; Scalise said on Fox News&rsquo;s <em>The Sunday Briefing<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share?id=3237568&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=9421&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=05d926d1726fcba28ccbc157cad78ff3\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;All of those things are things that we have been actively debating in Congress,&rdquo; Scalise said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has also proposed sending Obamacare funding directly to consumers to purchase &ldquo;better&rdquo; <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3880916\/democrats-put-healthcare-back-at-center-shutdown-fight-samantha-jo-roth\/\">healthcare<\/a>, adding that it is &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-gun-policies-concern-second-amendment-advocates\/\" title=\"Biden gun policies concern Second Amendment advocates\">long past time<\/a> to lower premiums, not enrich insurance companies.&rdquo; Scalise said <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/finance-and-economy\/3888519\/congress-government-funding-bill-erase-3-4-trillion-in-deficits\/\">Congress<\/a> will act on this &ldquo;real soon&rdquo; and that other efforts and ideas on healthcare affordability are being discussed &ldquo;in the weeks ahead.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/faith-freedom-self-reliance\/3883612\/tariff-dividend-trump-50-year-mortgage-fails-economics\/\"><strong>WITH &lsquo;TARIFF DIVIDEND&rsquo; AND 50-YEAR MORTGAGE SCHEMES, TRUMP FAILS BASIC ECONOMICS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration is planning <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3887802\/trump-administration-plans-ease-food-tariffs-affordability-push\/\">a new round of tariff exemptions<\/a> to address food prices in a bid to promote affordability. In a statement provided to the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> by the White House, spokesman Kush Desai highlighted a September executive order that laid out assorted natural resources and agricultural products not produced domestically that could be eligible to have tariffs lifted.<\/p>\n<p>One issue that could inflate through Trump&rsquo;s proposed $2,000 tariff rebates <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3883532\/downside-2000-tariff-dividend-checks-inflation\/\">is inflation<\/a>. Jason Furman, the chairman of former President Barack Obama&rsquo;s Council of Economic Advisers, told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> that when former President Joe Biden issued stimulus spending during the pandemic recovery, it contributed to higher inflation in the following years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scalise: Congress to debate Trump&#8217;s $2,000 tariff rebates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2511240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AP25317127455615.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[66756,14209,4402,5025,67180],"class_list":["post-2511239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-2-9","tag-14209","tag-congress","tag-scalise","tag-tariff-rebates"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AP25317127455615.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2511239"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2511243,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511239\/revisions\/2511243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2511240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2511239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2511239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2511239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}