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      "title": "Trump Accounts: From the 2025 Tax Law to the July 2026 Launch and the Employer Matches",
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      "role": "Promoted the accounts and, with Susan Dell, pledged $6.25 billion for $250 grants to eligible children.",
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      "date": "2026-10-09",
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      "title": "Dell $250 deposits for children are reported complete",
      "summary": "Invest America stated that gifts from Michael and Susan Dell had been deposited and invested in children's Trump Accounts. TrumpAccounts.com reported that all Dell $250 deposits had been made.",
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      "title": "Dell Foundation starts depositing the $250 grants",
      "summary": "Nine months after the pledge, the Dell Foundation said eligible children with open accounts would begin receiving the $250 that week, for children born 2016 through 2024 in ZIP codes with median income at or below $150,000. Families still had to open an account to receive it.",
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          "quote": "Eligible children with Trump Accounts will start receiving the $250 Dell gift this week, a spokesperson for the Dell Foundation told CNBC. Michael Dell, the CEO of Dell Technologies, and his wife, Susan, committed $6.25 billion to provide the funds for children born between 2016 and 2024 who live in ZIP codes where the median income is $150,000 or less. The couple's donation could fund investment accounts for some 25 million American children, according to the Dell Foundation."
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      "date": "2026-07-06",
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      "title": "Trump rings the opening bell from the Oval Office with the NYSE and Nasdaq; Dell shares jump",
      "summary": "The first market open after the launch was marked by a joint NYSE and Nasdaq bell-ringing in the Oval Office with Bessent and CEOs including Michael Dell. Trump's praise of Dell sent the company's shares sharply higher during the session.",
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          "quote": "WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq joined President Donald J. Trump, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, and other influential leaders in the Oval Office to ring the opening bell in celebration of the first market opening after the full launch of Trump Accounts."
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      "date": "2025-12-02",
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      "title": "Michael and Susan Dell pledge $6.25 billion to put $250 into 25 million children's accounts",
      "summary": "The Dells announced the largest gift the program had drawn: $250 for every child aged 10 and under living in a ZIP code with median income of $150,000 or less, roughly 25 million children, extending the accounts' reach beyond the newborns covered by the federal $1,000. Trump announced it at the White House with the Dells; the money began landing in accounts in September 2026.",
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          "quote": "Thanks to the Dell’s unprecedented gift, the first 25 million American children age 10 and under living in ZIP codes with median incomes below $150,000 will receive an additional $250."
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      "title": "Trump hosts CEOs at the White House to sell the $1,000 'Trump Accounts'; Dell pledges to match for employees' children",
      "summary": "Weeks after the House passed its reconciliation bill, Trump convened Michael Dell, Uber's Dara Khosrowshahi, Goldman Sachs' David Solomon, Robinhood's Vlad Tenev and others to promote the child investment accounts, renamed from 'MAGA accounts' in the House text. Dell pledged $1,000 for each new child of a Dell employee; the other CEOs promised contributions 'at a level appropriate to their company'. Investor Brad Gerstner's Invest America campaign had pushed the idea.",
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          "quote": "Today, President Donald J. Trump joined top business leaders and lawmakers to hail the creation of “Trump Accounts” — a provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill that will create tax-deferred investment accounts for all newborn American children. Trump Accounts for newborns will be seeded with a one-time government contribution of $1,000."
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