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[OG Swolemaster]

IT'S OUT

 

[somevan]

Does anybody know what this executive order is, that he signed today? Something about retirement savings?

Sec. 2. Establishment of TrumpIRA.gov.

It's Trump sucking himself off for being the greatest ever, so everything has to be named after him.

White House link / Archive

Spoiler: Screenshot + text

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to ensure that every American worker has access to a simple, portable, low-cost retirement-savings option, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1. Policy. Tens of millions of Americans lack access to employer-sponsored retirement plans. Workers in small businesses, part-time workers, independent contractors, and self‑employed workers face unnecessary barriers to saving for retirement. My Administration intends to give these often-left-out American workers access to the same type of retirement-savings opportunities offered to every Federal worker and to establish an easy and transparent way for eligible workers to obtain up to a $1,000 match for their savings. Hard-working Americans deserve retirement security in portable savings vehicles that offer access to low-cost investments similar to those offered to Federal workers in the Thrift Savings Plan.

It is the policy of the United States to promote high-quality, low-cost individual retirement accounts (IRAs) offered by private-sector financial institutions that meet objective standards of cost, transparency, and fiduciary responsibility.

It is further the policy of the United States to increase public awareness of the Federal Saver’s Match enacted in the bipartisan SECURE 2.0 Act (Public Law 117-328, Division T) and to facilitate participation in eligible retirement-savings vehicles that provide diversified, index-based investment options.

Through a federally administered retirement-savings informational platform that highlights qualifying high-quality, low-cost, private-sector IRAs, the United States will promote retirement-savings participation, provide access to retirement-savings options similar to those enjoyed by Federal employees, and encourage workers to reap the rewards of the vibrant American private-sector along with the power of compound earnings.

Sec. 2. Establishment of TrumpIRA.gov. (a) The Secretary of the Treasury shall, by January 1, 2027, establish a website (TrumpIRA.gov) that provides individuals, with a particular focus on independent contractors, self-employed individuals, and other workers who do not have access to an employer-sponsored retirement plan, with information about high-quality, low-cost IRAs. Individuals who contribute to qualifying IRAs, and who are otherwise eligible, are entitled to a Federal Saver’s Match contribution of up to $1,000 pursuant to 26 U.S.C. 6433.

(b) TrumpIRA.gov shall list financial institutions that offer IRAs under 26 U.S.C. 408, accept the Federal Saver’s Match contribution under 26 U.S.C. 6433(e)(2)(C), and meet other criteria, as directed by the Secretary of the Treasury, consistent with applicable law. In addition, TrumpIRA.gov shall explain the cost and quality criteria described in subsection (c) of this section, allow individuals to filter and select IRAs based on their cost and quality, and provide information regarding the opportunity to receive the Federal Saver’s Match contribution under 26 U.S.C. 6433, consistent with applicable law.

(c) TrumpIRA.gov shall identify financial institutions that offer IRAs that:

(i) provide a menu of investment options that meet stated criteria including:

(A) investment fund products or model portfolios, including life-cycle or targeted-retirement-date options as described in 29 C.F.R. 2550.404c-5(e)(4)(i), or balanced funds as described in 29 C.F.R. 2550.404c-5(e)(4)(ii); or

(B) funds that are designed to protect principal on an ongoing basis, as described in 29 C.F.R. 2550.404c-5(e)(4)(iv);

(ii) maintain low administrative costs, with overall net-expense ratios, inclusive of operating costs, management fees, and administrative expenses, limited to .15 percent; and

(iii) do not impose minimum-contribution or balance requirements.

(d) In accordance with section 104(a) of the SECURE 2.0 Act, TrumpIRA.gov shall be designed to increase public awareness of the opportunity for eligible individuals to make contributions to retirement-savings vehicles and receive the Federal Saver’s Match contribution; facilitate low-cost, safe, and informed retirement-savings decisions; and increase retirement saving.

Sec. 3. Federal Saver’s Match Implementation. (a) The Secretary of the Treasury shall take all necessary steps, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, to ensure that qualifying individuals who contribute to IRAs, including those who open IRAs listed on TrumpIRA.gov and otherwise satisfy all applicable requirements, receive the Federal Saver’s Match contribution.

(b) The Secretary of the Treasury shall take all necessary steps, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, to encourage financial institutions to accept the Federal Saver’s Match contributions in accordance with rules established by the Secretary.

Sec. 4. Charitable Contributions. The Secretary of the Treasury and the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service shall, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, provide guidance with respect to the tax treatment of contributions made by tax-exempt organizations to IRAs maintained by workers who are members of a charitable class entitled to receive the contribution without jeopardizing the organizations’ tax-exempt status.

Sec. 5. Worker Protection. The Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Labor shall issue regulations, exemptions, or guidance, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, to ensure that IRAs maintained by financial institutions, including those listed on TrumpIRA.gov, protect workers, maintain transparency, and prevent prohibited transactions within the meaning of 26 U.S.C. 4975.

Sec. 6. Legislative Recommendations. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, shall prepare legislative recommendations to codify the policy set forth in this order so that workers lacking access to employer-provided retirement plans, including workers in small businesses, part‑time workers, independent contractors, and self-employed workers, have access to a retirement option with low fees, eligibility for the Federal Saver’s Match or other matching contributions, diversified index‑based investment options, automatic portfolio choices, and portability.

Sec. 7. Severability. If any provision of this order, or the application of any provision to any individual or circumstance, is held to be invalid, the remainder of this order and the application of its other provisions to any other individuals or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.

Sec. 8. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.

(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

(d) The costs for publication of this order shall be borne by the Department of the Treasury.

DONALD J. TRUMP

THE WHITE HOUSE,

April 30, 2026.

My understanding: It's meant to help lower-income workers, "small-business workers, part-time workers, independent contractors, and self‑employed workers" contribute to their retirement funds. Its timing coincides with Biden's "Saver's Match" initiative, where starting in 2027, the feds would match up to $1,000 per year for lower-income workers. Trump's website should be another way for workers without an IRA to open one and start saving for retirement, with access to the Saver's Match in the future.

Saver's Match will replace the current Saver's Credit, which

"is the wrong tool for low- to moderate-income people who typically owe little to no income tax. Because a nonrefundable credit only offsets tax liabilities, it can be claimed only by those who owe taxes and can only reduce to zero the taxes they must pay. The data bears out the problem with the Saver’s Credit approach: In 2021, only 5.7% of taxpayers claimed the credit, with an average credit amount of $191.³ The credit suffers even further from a lack of awareness among low-income savers and from so-called rate cliffs that severely limit the number of taxpayers who qualify for the most generous rate (50%)."

The Saver’s Match is designed to overcome these hurdles in a number of ways

Pew.org / Archive


Explained by USAToday / Archive

Spoiler: Text

Roughly two-fifths of full-time workers – and four-fifths of part-time workers – lack access to retirement savings through their employers, according to the Economic Innovation Group. Over the past half century, the federal government has been trying to persuade Americans to build savings to cover their retirement, and to supplement Social Security, using tax breaks as a lure. The effort is only partly successful: About half of all private-sector workers, overall, now participate in 401(k) plans.

Trump’s order coincides with the coming launch of the Saver’s Match, a 2022 initiative of the Biden administration that delivers up to $1,000 a year in matching retirement contributions for lower-income workers.

Retirement savings is a rare bipartisan area of federal policy, as evidenced by the Trump administration piggybacking on a Biden-era initiative.

Under the Saver’s Match, starting in January 2027, nearly 22 million lower-income employees who contribute to a retirement savings account become eligible for matching funds from the government. The maximum match is $1,000 per person, according to a Pew analysis.

To qualify for the Saver’s Match, a single tax filer must earn less than $35,500. The cap for joint filers is $71,000. The maximum match rate is 50% of an employee’s contribution.

The Saver’s Match replaces the current Saver’s Credit, a nonrefundable tax credit for lower-income taxpayers. The big difference: The Saver’s Credit only reduces the tax you owe. The Saver’s Match puts dollars into your retirement account.

Under Trump’s executive order, workers could leverage the TrumpIRA.gov site “to filter private-sector retirement plans by factors like cost, minimum contribution, and minimum balance,” Semafor reported. (The site did not appear to be active yet on the afternoon of April 30.)

Trump said he would call on Congress to work on expanding the TrumpIRA initiative over time, eventually broadening access to the Saver’s Match to include workers who earn more than the $35,500 income limit.

Access to tax-favored retirement plans is widening as more states introduce “automated savings” programs, prodding companies to offer retirement plans and enrolling workers automatically. Starting in 2025, most new 401(k) plans had to automatically enroll workers, rather than leave the decision to them.

If the federal government adopted an auto-IRA program, another 32 million workers would join the retirement savings system, according to estimates in a new report from Morningstar. The new initiative comes at a significant cost. Funding the Saver's Match would diminish federal revenues by $9.3 billion between 2028 and 2032, according to the libertarian Cato Institute, citing data from the federal Joint Committee on Taxation. Automatic enrollment could push the cost past $20 billion. "Policymakers are layering new spending commitments, with uncertain benefits for lower-income households, on top of a system already facing a $28 trillion shortfall," said Romina Boccia, director of budget and entitlement policy at Cato.

 

[prollyanotherlurker]

. I imagine she sees the writing on the wall and is taking the nearest exit ramp to ensure she still has a base that will listen to her podcasts, or support her if she reenters politics on a revamped platform. I just refuse to believe any lawmaker, intellectual, or influencer who supported Trump for *that long* could be motivated by something other than cynicism

I just don't think the timeline, and how things played out with her, and Trump supports that at all.

The only people in the group I've seen this sentiment expressed about where I would say it's probably accurate is Megan Kelly, and Alex Jones. Even then you could kind of say it's not exactly like that if you are paying more attention to what happened, and what they were saying. But if that is an accurate accessment for any of them, it's those two.

For MTG in particular I think it's especially wrong. I think its wrong for Tucker as well, but that one is at least almost understandable. For MTG, her falling out with Trump was very public, she literally left he government position over it voluntarily (well if you consider resigning because your family is getting death threats voluntary). Its not like she decided last week she's going to be critical of Trump for no reason.

 

[No. 7 cat]

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Trump is still a sex offender.

 

[JaneThough]

My understanding: It's meant to help lower-income workers, "small-business workers, part-time workers, independent contractors, and self‑employed workers" contribute to their retirement funds. Its timing coincides with Biden's "Saver's Match" initiative, where starting in 2027, the feds would match up to $1,000 per year for lower-income workers. Trump's website should be another way for workers without an IRA to open one and start saving for retirement, with access to the Saver's Match in the future.

So he just rebranded something someone else did?

 

[General Patton]

Trump is still a sex offender.

Speaking of Trump being a pedo and public about it, what are the migger's defense about Trump's comments he once made about his one year old daughter:

Trump told host Robin Leach: "She's really a beautiful baby. She's got Marla's [Maples] legs. We don't know whether or not she's got this part yet,"

You figure him sexualizing his infant child would have proved it.

 

[somevan]

So he just rebranded something someone else did?

He's creating TrumpIRA.gov, which should be able to help people without IRAs get access to an IRA (in some way). That's new. The Saver's Match is Biden's initiative to help lower-income workers save into retirements, rather than lower-income workers trying to reduce the amount of taxes they owe. The possible $1k in savings per year is more than most would get by reducing the taxes owed. TrumpIRA is meant to help more people benefit from Saver's Match and open IRAs in general. If he renamed Saver's Match to "Trump Match," that would just be a rebrand.

 

[Kino Dogmeat]

Okay this nigga is straight up retarded

 

[Shadowmän]

This guy is like the the personification of the kind of person the Trump campaign (and miggers) imagine liberals/democrats are. Really it's like he was made in a lab to be the perfect example of everything they say about liberals. A lot like how that one migger goes on Piers Morgan debates to be the most smug annoying possible version of a Trump supporter, it makes me suspicious if this guy is just getting paid to be like this. It makes it really hard to not hate him, and I seriously do get the same vibes from this guy I get from that other guy (who I can't remember the name of because he's an irrelevant faggot) that is essentially on the polar opposite side of him politically.

Although I think this guy is worse. He genuinely gets mad over the word retarded, then proceeds to use the word retarded to attack her for using the word retarded as an example.

He just made his own side look worse during this debate in pretty much every way. I hope for his own sake he is actually some kind of controlled opposition, because if he isn't he is truly retarded.

Good god, both of these retards don't know what the fuck a debate is, her point is a bunch of ad hominems, sealioning and strawmans, he is just there and Says "ummm bu-but you!1!1!!1!!" she literally won the debate just because she was fighting a real life strawman

 

[bread n circuses]

I've said it before about MTG and I'll say it now. Whatever principles and morals she has, they lead her to agree with some reprehensible form of Trump that she conjured up in her head.

I don't relate to her moral code and I may also suggest she was dumb for thinking Trump would be morally consistent. But I do believe she has scruples - she isn't kicking off at Trump because she was excluded; she was excluded because she kicked off at Trump for violating her moral principles. For that she earns my begrudging respect because she is willing to take a principled stand instead of just supporting Trump to own the libs. That's how low the bar is.

The claim that Carlson, MTG, and other ex-maggots left MAGA to grift is legit hilarious. Why the fuck would they abandon the biggest group of low IQ marks to ever exist and the most openly corrupt administration in history if their intent was just to make money?

 

[General Patton]

Okay this nigga is straight up retarded

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How many times has Trump fallen asleep again?

 

[Drip Torch]

I wish Charlie Kirk's mother had aborted him so we didn't have to put up with all of this fucking cringe posting about Charlie Kirk from boomer brained miggers.

I wish I didn't live in world where the political opinions of internet randos represented by cartoon images of suspiciously young blonde girls are taken seriously.

I'm pointing my fingers at so many users here. You know who you are.

 

[Chainsaw Man]

The claim that Carlson, MTG, and other ex-maggots left MAGA to grift is legit hilarious. Why the fuck would they abandon the biggest group of low IQ marks to ever exist and the most openly corrupt administration in history if their intent was just to make money?

I think I can kinda see it at least with Tucker, I think he is smart enough to realize that trump is a sinking ship, and is just cashing in right before it gets too bad. He'll likely endorse JD vance in 2028 if he's the nominee.

 

[Goonbase Alpha]

Chaser:

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“Maaaaan, if Charlie Kuck was my dad, he’d totally let me watch R-rated movies and stay up late to eat ice cream and play video games!!”

Speaking if the sham that is our economy the monologue touches on that a bit.

As for the interview with MTG after. All I'll say is I do think her heart is in the right place at least.

Saying MTG’s heart is in the right place is like saying a jellyfish’s spine is in the right place, she doesn’t have the cognitive capabilities necessary for motivations like that. Here’s what it actually comes down to: growing up, people most likely treated her like shit for being dumb and ugly, despite her parents having money. When she grew up and paid her way into politics, she finally found herself surrounded by people who tolerated her; finally, she was the mean girl who everyone admired for how smart and pretty she was!

…except she wasn’t, because as she found out, she was just yet another useful idiot for the fat orange pedophile, and when her usefulness ran out she went back to being treated the same way she always was by everyone else. Her current actions are nothing more than a coping mechanism for realizing that despite thinking she moved past that part of her life, she was always still just the ugly, bitter retard she was always bullied for being. Simple as.

Is that a really shitty picture of her or does MTG always look that masculine?

She really is just that ugly. I think I speak on behalf of most straight men when I say that I wouldn’t even fuck her with someone else’s dick, she has negative sex appeal. She’s so far removed from looking human that I’m not convinced she doesn’t have Bigfoot DNA coursing through her veins, and if someone told me her pussy was lined with chimpanzee teeth I wouldn’t even question it. She’s a fucking mutant.

 

[JaneThough]

He's creating TrumpIRA.gov, which should be able to help people without IRAs get access to an IRA (in some way). That's new. The Saver's Match is Biden's initiative to help lower-income workers save into retirements, rather than lower-income workers trying to reduce the amount of taxes they owe. The possible $1k in savings per year is more than most would get by reducing the taxes owed. TrumpIRA is meant to help more people benefit from Saver's Match and open IRAs in general. If he renamed Saver's Match to "Trump Match," that would just be a rebrand.

Ahh so he took what Biden did and thought “but how can I profit” and created his own IRA website like Vanguard and others don’t already exist.

 

[somevan]

It is quite possible that there will be a round 2 of Trump's war against Iran if Trump doesn't relax his demands regarding Iran's control of the Strait and uranium enrichment, because Iran's leadership hasn't backed down. Even the threat of genocide against Iran hasn't led to an unconditional surrender, like Trump originally demanded, so it's unknown how this will actually proceed.

ISW's Iran Update Special Report, April 30, 2026 / Archive

Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei declared on April 30 that Iran will retain control over shipping through the Strait of Hormuz and maintain its nuclear and missile capabilities, which supports ISW-CTP’s assessment that the Iranian regime is unlikely to make meaningful concessions in its next proposal to the United States.

Mojtaba published a written statement on April 30 in which he stated that Iran will implement a “new management” in the strait—likely in reference to Iran’s collection of tolls from vessels that transit the strait—as a means to “secure” the Persian Gulf and prevent “hostile” interference in the region.[2]

Mojtaba also underscored that Iran will defend its nuclear, missile, and advanced technological capabilities as resolutely as it defends its territorial borders.[3] A senior Iranian official speaking to the Washington Post on April 30 similarly asserted that Iran’s security establishment rejects compromise on key matters, such as Iran’s ability to enrich uranium.[4]

Mojtaba’s statement and the Washington Post report are consistent with ISW-CTP’s assessment that IRGC Commander Major General Ahmad Vahidi, who appears to be dominating regime decision-making, is unwilling to make concessions regarding Iran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz or nuclear program.[5] Vahidi reportedly maintains near-exclusive access to Mojtaba and serves as a gatekeeper who conveys Mojtaba’s approval of decisions.[6] Pakistani mediators told Western media that Iran is expected to send them a revised proposal on May 1.[7]

If Iran is somehow able to control the Strait and keep its nuclear enrichment program, then that has to be the biggest own-goal of any US president in the last 30 years, at least. If Iran doesn't control the Strait and doesn't continue its uranium enrichment, then we're just back to 2018, before Trump withdrew from the JCPOA, which is the cause of Iran's current uranium enrichment progress. Still not a win, especially with the tens of billions of dollars and dozens of American lives wasted in Trump's war.

If Iran isn't glassed and its people obliterated, then Iran will work closely with Russia and China to rebuild its country, both civilian and military. Iran most likely won't be a threat for a few years, but Iran's leadership will not forget nor forgive the Americans for Trump's war. They might militarize their society and, in the far future, become a major power in the Middle East.

If Iran is glassed and its people obliterated, then congratulations, the US just genocided an entire country of people because Trump is a bitch with an ego but obeys Israel, too.

If Iran isn't invaded and occupied, then Iran will just rebuild and probably re-militarize. If Iran is invaded and occupied to stop Iran from re-militarizing, then we're back to spending billions of dollars to occupy a country that hates Americans.

If Iran doesn't surrender, then Trump really fucked the US, far more than he already has. If Iran surrenders, then there may eventually be a return to some pre-war conditions.


Dow's almost $50k thanks to Trump, though. So, what is a libtard like me complaining about?

 

[prollyanotherlurker]

I wish there was a general US politics thread specifically for non-miggers. Or at least wasn't overrun by them. There are things I would want to talk about, that aren't exactly on topic for this, like they don't directly include trump, or talk about him, or his supporters. But I would rather not even attempt talking about them in USPG2.

Like I was just listening to a Jake shields interview he did with a member of the American communist party. And it brought up something I completely forgot about. Occupy wall street and the way the powers that be subverted that entire movement by sowing division with race/gender politics. And thinking back to that in current day, seeing what has happened the last 10 years it does make you think there is probably a high likelihood this was exactly that same tactic being used on a much larger scale. I've already thought these things were used to divide the normal citizens, but thinking of it in that context it really shows it's almost certainly what happened.

Anyway, I think we should make a non-TES USGP thread or something.

 

[Froggy Fresh Sextape]

Okay this nigga is straight up retarded

Which makes it funnier that low IQ is one of his favorite insults.

Like dude your physician periodically giving you cognitive tests is not a good sign

 

[mango_reseller]

subverted that entire movement by sowing division with race/gender politics

Occupy was not really subverted imo. The movement was aimless. People were upset but they didnt have a single clear goal of where they wanted things to go. That initially helped in its popularity (like yellow vests protests in France, or even Arab Spring) but once people start having to go somewhere from protesting, then the competing interests trying to take hold of the movement naturally lead to dividing it. Slapping "gender" on it is just the right-wing excuse of choice, in my opinion, much like "class" would be the left-wing excuse.

I also don't really agree with widespread claims of it being a "constructive failed movement". I think people that say that are just wishing to move past it because it posed a political threat. Not a coherent one, and realistically it would become very Reign of Terror-like if it kept gaining momentum, but a threat nonetheless.

Like dude your physician periodically giving you cognitive tests is not a good sign

There is an article from a while back I think I linked but can't find right now, in which Trump was making a point out of asking doctors about his health in front of the interviewer and having them affirm he is in better (physical) shape than Obama. Do you need to know more?

Edit: It was this one

 

[Dr.0]

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Oh, will you look at that. I puzzle pieced you too.

" All these puzzle pieces, and you still couldn't get your shit together"