
如果民主党在下次选举中赢得多数席位,特朗普政府近期对特朗普账户所做的调整可能会遭到新一届国会的批评。
The Trump administration’s recent changes to Trump Accounts could come under fire from the next Congress if Democrats win a majority.
上周,美国财政部采取措施,自动为数以千万计的儿童开设特朗普账户,并允许个人捐赠股票。财政部长斯科特·贝森特在中期选举前夕大力推介这一计划。
The Treasury Department moved last week to automatically enroll tens of millions of children and greenlight donations of individual stocks as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent touts the accounts ahead of midterms.
唐纳德·特朗普总统表示:“我相信美国梦属于每一个孩子和每一个家庭。今天,通过特朗普账户,我们正在助力下一代实现这一梦想。”贝森特本周在宾夕法尼亚州如此说道。
President Donald Trump “believes that the American dream belongs to every child and every family — and today, through Trump Accounts, we are equipping the next generation to claim it,” Bessent said in Pennsylvania this week.
不过据众议院工作人员向Semafor透露,民主党人认为允许捐赠个人股票缺乏法律依据,而自动开户机制也可能使那些因宗教或其他原因不希望持有股票的储户无法选择退出。
But Democrats believe that the individual stocks lack statutory authority and that the automatic enrollment could prevent savers with religious or other concerns with the stocks from opting out, House aides told Semafor.
自由意志主义者也表达了类似担忧:卡托研究所的诺伯特·米歇尔对Semafor指出,“公众可以获得足够的信息来自行做出决定”,“并非有了这些账户就一定能让民众受益。”目前财政部尚未对相关问询作出回应。— 埃莉诺·穆勒
Libertarians expressed similar reservations: “There’s more than enough information available to people” that they “can decide on their own,” the Cato Institute’s Norbert Michel told Semafor. “It’s just not the case that the fact that they have something makes them better off.”The Treasury Department did not return a request for comment. — Eleanor Mueller