CHICAGO — After the U.S. Treasury paid out $100 billion in tariff refunds to corporations at the end of last month, Gov. In a letter sent to President Donald Trump on Thursday, Aug. 6, Pritzker asked the president to send direct payments of $1,700 to Illinois families. Pritzker encouraged Trump to support the Tariff Relief for Consumers Act, a bill that would require companies receiving refunds to lower prices paid by consumers on household goods that were affected by the illegal tariffs. The states called the invocation of forced labor a “pretext to continue its illegal tariff scheme.” “For the third time, I stand with my colleagues across the country to fight the Trump administration’s illegal tariffs,” Attorney General Kwame Raoul said in a statement announcing the lawsuit.