When Katie Rogers pressed Trump about the $2,000 checks, his hesitation felt like a crack in a promise millions had quietly budgeted into their future. Confusing the pledge with a $1,776 bonus for service members, he eventually insisted the payments would still come “toward the end of the year,” funded by “substantial” tariff revenue. But the numbers tell a different story: an estimated $600 billion price tag versus just $90 billion collected so far, and a looming Supreme Court ruling that could force much of that money to be refunded.
Behind the political theater are households counting every dollar, listening to shifting timelines and conditional maybes. Economists warn about inflation, Republicans question the wisdom of tariff-funded checks, and the administration urges Americans to save money they don’t yet have. In the gap between promise and reality, what’s really at stake is faith—faith that government words still mean something when the cameras are gone.
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