U.S. President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the chambers of the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C., United States, on Feb. 24, 2026. WASHINGTON – A proposal to give lower-income workers a $1,000 federal match for their retirement accounts, one of President Donald Trump’s few policy ideas in his State of the Union speech, is actually already on the books, thanks to a 2022 law signed by Democratic predecessor Joe Biden. It is unclear what precisely Trump would do to enhance that, although his reference to “same type of retirement plan offered to every federal worker” suggests that workers would have the option of having an account administered by the federal government.
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Published at: 2026-02-25 23:26:46
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