Ted Cruz
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And I like being in the battle.
I mean, I like, you know, I mean, it is every day that the Senate is like the Roman Colosseum where you're battling the barbarians.
And it's a heck of a lot of fun.
Yeah, look, I think the Trump accounts will be truly transformational.
And I will say it's interesting.
I think President Trump initially, when we laid out the idea to him, he liked it.
But I think as he's
As he's seen more and more what these are going to do, I think he's really appreciating that these are going to be a huge part of his legacy.
When when all of us are dead and buried, people are still going to the impact of the Trump accounts is going to echo forward.
And the two massive benefits.
are number one, every kid in America is going to get the benefit of compound growth.
You know, half of the people in America don't own a single stock and don't own a single bond.
And the impact... Well, here, give a listen to Fox News talking about just how much wealth kids can accumulate through these Trump accounts.
Look, in the tax cut, you were competing with everything else.
Everyone else had a priority, and so it was dividing the pie.
And it was also โ look, this was something new.
It was major.
Getting it through the Senate parliamentarian was a real challenge, and we fought hard and got it through.
And you look at that math, you're not talking about just the kids of rich people, you're talking about the kids of a single mom who's waiting tables.
And the math of that, so a little girl born this year,