$600 Tariff Check or Pay Down Debt?
Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater
The First Digital Inc.
4.9 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome to politics by faith. |
| 0:05.6 | Thank you so much for being here. |
| 0:06.7 | So we talked about this the other day on my Sirius XM show, that there's so much |
| 0:12.3 | tariff revenue coming in. |
| 0:14.0 | The president has thrown out this idea. |
| 0:17.1 | Here's how I actually think it went down. |
| 0:19.1 | I think Josh Hawley fed a question to a reporter. A reporter asked the president, and the president in his non-committal way, said, oh, you were thinking about it, maybe we'll see, right? So he got kind of thrown out there. And then right away, Josh Hawley said, I got a bill that will give a $600 refund to everyone because of the tariffs. |
| 0:38.0 | I have no proof at all that that's the order of operations, how this went down, but the timeline |
| 0:42.3 | suggests some. |
| 0:43.9 | Either way, this idea has been thrown out there to take this tariff revenue, and instead of |
| 0:48.7 | paying down the debt, we give a $600 rebate to every American, and then we work out |
| 0:53.4 | the details of it. |
| 0:54.1 | Who gets it? |
| 0:54.6 | Whatever. |
| 0:55.3 | But we brought this up. |
| 0:55.9 | So when I first heard this, almost all the comments online from conservatives were this is a terrible idea, hard pass, hard no. |
| 1:04.7 | I was like, oh, that's really interesting. |
| 1:05.8 | So we brought it up on Sirius XM. |
| 1:07.9 | And it was, we did a 10 listener poll. |
| 1:11.4 | It was three yes for the rebates and seven no. |
| 1:15.8 | And there were such wonderful principled arguments and I was able to think about it a little bit more. |
| 1:21.1 | And this is my working conclusion at the moment. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The First Digital Inc., and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The First Digital Inc. and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

