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Founder, Chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies; billionaire businessman and philanthropist
The idea is to give millions of children a head start on saving for the future. And we know that when children have accounts like this, even with modest sums, they have better outcomes in life.
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AI Verified Verified: In Bill Chappell’s NPR story dated December 2, 2025, as republished by CapRadio and North Country Public Radio, the supplied two-sentence passage appears verbatim and is explicitly attributed with the wording 'Michael Dell told NPR.' I could not fetch the original NPR URL directly because of robots.txt, but reliable NPR affiliate copies preserve the same byline, date, and text. ([capradio.org](https://www.capradio.org/news/npr/story?storyid=nx-s1-5628412)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 5d ago
AI Verified Verified the quote attributed to Michael Dell. NPR's own URL returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but a web search confirmed multiple outlets reporting that Michael Dell told NPR exactly: "The idea is to give millions of children a head start on saving for the future" and "we know that when children have accounts like this, even with modest sums, they have better outcomes in life." Context: the Dell family pledged $6.25B to fund 'Trump Accounts' depositing $250 for up to 25M U.S. children (Dec 2, 2025). Year (2025) is current. Vote alignment: the statement is "Introduce a universal basic wealth system that grants individuals a capital endowment at birth"; Dell's support for endowing children with savings accounts aligns with a "for" vote, which matches. Source URL is NPR, the primary outlet to which Dell gave the statement. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 20d ago
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