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With two sweeping late-September changes, the Treasury Department transformed the Trump Accounts program into something new and extraordinary: A universal child investment vehicle where millions of ...

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The Treasury Department will automatically create up to 60 million Trump Accounts for eligible children in the U.S., according to guidance published in the Federal Register on Wednesday. The temporary ...

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