Claire Cain Miller
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first heard Jul 2026
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Well, there are some disagreements on the right about the goal of these accounts and how to talk about them.
For example, the Treasury Secretary, Scott Besson, who's been a huge proponent of these accounts, at one point on stage at a Breitbart news event, said that they were a backdoor to eventually privatizing Social Security.
And then immediately had to walk that back.
But there's another split on the right, too, which is that the populist wing of the party has become much more in favor of the government using its money to help families.
But the more traditional Republicans who are hesitant to spend government money are not thrilled about the idea of a government handout in the form of these $1,000 contributions to babies born during his second term.
Another goal, as we've been talking about, is to reduce the wealth gap.
Yet the way the law is written, unlike the policies that Democrats have proposed, actually restricts donors from choosing who gets money based on income.
They cannot give money specifically to kids whose parents are below a certain income.
And then there's also the goal of reducing the racial wealth gap.
And what we know is that about 60% of Americans own stock, and they are more likely to be white, to have college degrees, and to earn high incomes.
And so the stock market has now become the biggest driver of the racial wealth gap, which is the amount of savings and other wealth that Black and Hispanic people have versus white people.
This is something that the Trump administration has talked about almost not at all.
As we know, it has worked very hard to end diversity, equity, and inclusion measures.
That's exactly right.
So instead, they focused on something else, which is just the incredible success of the U.S.
stock market.
The idea that the U.S.
stock market is a really powerful way to build wealth and the idea that every American child should be a shareholder.
Instead of talking about children who are poor, who are Black and Latino, who may not be able to access that wealth, they're just talking about how every American child should be able to get into the stock market.
From what I've heard, people on the right think that addressing the struggles of working families and the affordability crisis is really, really key for the president because working families are having such a tough time right now.
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