Ted Cruz: “Michael and Susan Dell announced at the White House on…”

“Michael and Susan Dell made an historic announcement. And the way I wrote the legislation creating the Trump accounts, it's designed to allow people, philanthropy to charity, to give into the accounts. And what Michael and Susan Dell announced at the White House on Tuesday [that] they were personally giving out of their own resources, six and a quarter billion dollars. And what they're doing in particular is they're giving $250 for the 250th anniversary of America to every child in America under age 10 who lives in a zip code where the median income is $150,000 or less.” (00:12–00:24)

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