Donald Trump is about to sign an executive order that would let private equity and cryptocurrency firms into America’s 401(k)s. This windfall for Wall Street executives would be a disaster in the making for millions of workers who depend on their retirement savings. Private equity and crypto insiders have been lobbying for this access for years because their performance is faltering and they need new cash to stay afloat. Now Trump is delivering exactly what they want, at the expense of ordinary Americans.
These investments are high-fee, risky, and opaque. Private equity has consistently underperformed simpler investments while charging layer upon layer of hidden costs. Crypto’s volatility has wiped out small investors again and again. Giving them a green light to raid trillions in 401(k) funds means millions of people will lose the chance for a secure retirement while Wall Street executives walk away richer.
Our co-executive director, Lisa Donner, put it plainly.
“Private equity executives have enriched themselves by the billions, taking high fees and other charges from working people’s hard-earned retirement savings in pension funds. Now they want fees from the trillions of dollars in individual retirement accounts, putting millions more people at risk”.
AFR is leading the fight to stop this. We are on Capitol Hill working directly with members of Congress and their staffs to block and roll back Trump’s order. We are activating our grassroots network of more than 400,000 people nationwide to send a clear message that retirement savings must be protected. And we are in the media, driving the national conversation and exposing this scheme for what it is — a handout to Wall Street that puts every worker’s future in danger.
We’re building the pressure in Washington, mobilizing grassroots activists, and fighting back against Trump and Wall Street’s scheme to raid retirement savings, and we need your support. Please rush a donation now.
Retirement savings should be safe, transparent, and managed in the interest of workers. They should never be handed over to private equity and crypto speculators for their own profit.
If we do not stop this, millions of families will pay the price while Wall Street cashes in.
Trump’s order is a massive giveaway to super-rich Wall Street moguls, but it is not inevitable. We have beaten back Wall Street’s schemes before, and we can do it again if we mobilize now. With your help, we can make sure that Congress hears the outcry, that regulators are pressured to intervene, and that the public understands exactly how dangerous this plan is.
AFR has the strategy to win. We are exposing the risks, mobilizing working people, and pressing lawmakers for immediate action. But we need the resources to fight back against Trump, private equity, and crypto’s powerful lobbying machine.
Please donate $5 so AFR has the resources to stop Trump’s retirement scam, protect workers’ savings, and take on Wall Street’s dangerous grab for power now.
Let’s fight together to protect retirement security from Trump and Wall Street’s latest scam.
Ericka.
Ericka Taylor (she/her)
Co-Executive Director
Americans for Financial Reform.
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