Trump Accounts: Setting the Record Straight | E.J. Antoni, Ph.D
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Trump Accounts: Setting the Record Straight | E.J. Antoni, Ph.D

8:22 Feb 9, 2026
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A product of the “Big Beautiful Bill,” Trump Accounts give American children — sorry, illegal aliens, this one is for us — a “tremendous” financial head start on life, providing the means to pay for college or put a down payment on a home, along with exposure to equities, something roughly 1 in 3 Americans currently do not have. If you make the maximum annual contribution of $5,000 to a Trump Account, it could be worth: At age 18: $300,000 At age 28: $800,000 At age 55: $10 million All courtesy of the power of compounding returns, argues Heritage Foundation Chief Economist E.J. Antoni in this special video commentary. ?For more videos like this, subscribe to The Daily Signal’s YouTube channel and enable notifications to be alerted the second a new video drops: https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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