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This claim is based in fact, but exaggerated. The exact language of the bill is that it allows "certain individual taxpayers whose adjusted gross income does not exceed $125,000 ($250,000 in the case of a joint return) a tax credit for 30% of their expenditures, not exceeding $2,500, for products made in the United States." Basically, a couple would could receive a maximum of $5,000 for buying US made products and an individual can get up to $2,500. Also, the bill says that a single expenditure cannot exceed $500 and excludes firearms, ammunition, alcohol, tobacco, vehicles, gasoline, luxury goods, food, or non-depreciable real property. In other words, if passed, it is highly unlikely that "Americans" in general will receive the maximum amount of money like the headline makes it seem.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7458#:~:text=This%20bill%20allows%20certain%20individual,made%20in%20the%20United%20States.

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