Congress Not Needed to Issue $2,000 Tariff Rebate Checks, Trump Says

President Donald Trump said on Jan. 20 that he does not need Congress to issue $2,000 tariff rebate checks. “I don’t think we would have to go to the Congress, but we’ll find out,” Trump told reporters one day before attending the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. For months, the administration has touted the possibility of sending rebate checks to U.S. households and paying down the $39 trillion national debt with the president’s import duties. “The reason we’re even talking about it is that we have so much money coming in from tariffs,” Trump said. “But we will be able to make a very substantial dividend to the people of our country.”...