Trump Accounts for Kids, with $6.25B Pledge from the Dells

Wednesday, December 03, 2025

Tech billionaires Michael and Susan Dell pledged $6.25 billion to create 25 million additional "Trump Accounts," which are aimed at giving the next generation a jumpstart on savings.

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Michael and Susan Dell are donating $6.25 billion to fund "Trump Accounts" for 25 million U.S. children. The gift would put $250 into each eligible child's account. n.pr/4rzXG3L

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-- NPR (@npr.org) Dec 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM

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Perhaps one of our tax accountants could tell us what the write off is for this?

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-03 09:26 AM | Reply

Hmmm. Imagine if we could compel billionaires to do something like this yearly.. Like, on April 15th..

#2 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-12-03 04:05 PM | Reply

WTF is up with that picture?????

#3 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-12-03 09:41 PM | Reply

3. That's what I'm saying. I don't know what happened to my comment.

Scroll through. Susan Dell is a freak show. No photo seems to present a better angle.

#4 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-12-03 09:53 PM | Reply

#1
2.3125B federal funds redirected per personal preference. WTF/YW.

#5 | Posted by sit_goodboy at 2025-12-03 10:01 PM | Reply

Uh, hold on there, Baba Louie. Do the math. That's $250 per person. Assuming an 11% return (roughly the long term return on the S&P 500) that comes to $1,635.89 after 18 years. That's about a credit hour at some directional school college, or one class in a community college. Helpful? Yes. Very helpful, and a big impact on some young person's life? Nopenopenope...

#6 | Posted by catdog at 2025-12-04 08:14 AM | Reply

Scrooge McDuck tosses dimes..oh wait, was that one of the Rockefeller's?

#7 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-12-04 08:40 AM | Reply

Helpful? Yes. Very helpful, and a big impact on some young person's life? Nopenopenope...

That is always been the SOP for the GOP....pass something...talk it up as life changing when in reality it is nothing more than empty platitudes.

Then they will do something that will hurt more than help like taking career programs like
Nursing
Physician assistants
Physical therapists
Audiologists
Architects
Accountants
Educators
Social workers

and call them non-professional so they can stop funding them.

I can tell you that right now there are shortages of CPA's in my area, this will only make the problem worse.

But this was all the goal of Project 2025...to cut education funding so that only the very well off can afford to go into a professional career and force the rest into manual labor that used to be done by now deported immigrants.

#8 | Posted by nixon at 2025-12-04 08:44 AM | Reply