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2. Trump receives pushback for comments on tariff dividends, 50-year mortgages, H-1B visas
In a Truth Social post on Sunday, Trump announced his intention to pay “a dividend of at least $2,000 a person” to Americans to offset the cost of tariffs. The president had previously shared an image of himself alongside former President Franklin Roosevelt, noting that Roosevelt established a 30-year mortgage while the words “50-year mortgage” appeared under Trump’s picture.
In an op-ed published by The Christian Post this week, Joshua Arnold of the Family Research Council condemned the Trump administration’s latest ideas, maintaining that they “sound like they were borrowed from the same Bidenomics playbook that failed both on its own terms and with voters.”
Addressing the tariff rebate proposal, Arnold likened them to the COVID-era stimulus checks and warned that they would yield the same result of high inflation: “Once Americans started spending money again, this injection of extra money into the economy, without a corresponding increase of goods produced, helped contribute to the high inflation of 2021-2022.”
Stressing that “inflation occurs when too many dollars are chasing too few goods,” Arnold predicted that the tariff rebates would “likely add to lingering inflation.” Arnold cited the proposal for 50-year mortgages as a continuation of “the Biden administration’s mistakes of trying to bring down specific prices, instead of addressing the underlying causes of inflation itself.”
Trump also received pushback for his comments about the H-1B visa program for high-skilled immigrants during an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Monday. When Ingraham expressed concern that the program floods the market with foreign workers, which suppresses U.S. wages, Trump responded, “You have to bring in talent.”
When Ingraham insisted that the U.S. has “plenty of talented people here,” Trump replied, “No, you don’t. You don’t have certain talents, and people have to learn.”
Savanah Hernandez, a contributor to Turning Point USA, described Trump’s comments on H-1B visas as evidence of “how out of touch with the base” he has become, while Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., assured Americans that they are “good, talented, creative, intelligent, hard working, and want to achieve.”
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: ryan.foley@christianpost.com
