Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) is pushing a bill to send $600 rebate checks to Americans—but he’s making it clear these checks aren’t meant for “Biden voters.” Instead, they’re for “Trump blue-collar voters.”
In an interview with far-right podcaster Steve Bannon, Hawley said, “Well, you wouldn’t give it to everybody, you’d give it to the working people. You’d give it to our people.”
He added, “I mean, you know, the rich people don’t need it, and but what I mean by that is all those Democrat donors of Wall Street, all these hedge fund guys who all hate the tariffs, by the way.”
Hawley pointed out, “We’re on track to raise over $150 billion from tariff revenues this year alone, this calendar year alone.” But he didn’t mention that most of this money actually comes from Americans—consumers and businesses—paying higher prices.
“My view is, we ought to give a portion of that back to our working-class blue-collar voters who powered the Trump revolution, who got this president into office multiple times, and who are the backbone of this nation,” he said.
Hawley went on to accuse President Biden of hurting those voters. “Biden has crushed these people,” he said. “What a legacy for Donald Trump to say, ‘I’m gonna take a portion of this massive money’ that he’s raising on these tariffs, and return it to the people who run this country and are gonna build our future.”
Hawley explained the details of his plan: “It’d be $600 for every adult and child, so if you’ve got a big family, you’re gonna get more,” calling the idea “fantastic.”
He also said the checks would phase out for higher earners: “You start making six figures, you get into the big six figures—you’d phase the thing out.”
Hawley was clear about who won’t get the money: “This is not going to the hedge fund managers or all the Biden voters. This is not going to the Wall Street kingpins. So they don’t need any of it.”
Instead, he said, it’s for “the Trump blue collar voters, the people who Joe Biden crushed, the people who didn’t get a raise under Joe Biden for four long years, the people who cannot afford their gas, because Joe Biden shut down our energy, who can’t afford their groceries, because Joe Biden drove up the price of everything.”
He finished by saying, “And it is a message from us to them, from Trump to these folks that he is here to deliver for them.”
But critics argue Hawley’s plan is wrong. They say the $600 checks shouldn’t be handed out at all and that the money should go toward paying down the massive national debt. That debt, Republicans—including Trump—have added to by about $3.4 trillion, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
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Sen. Josh Hawley rebate checks: "This is not going to the Biden voters. This is going to Trump blue collar voters."🤔
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