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Ted Cruz: “There are right now more than $12 trillion in 401k accounts.”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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That was decades ago, and I suspect nobody in Congress knew just how fundamentally they were going to change how Americans save for retirement. There are right now more than $12 trillion in 401k accounts. It's massive. And there will be in just a couple of years, trillions of dollars in Trump accounts as well. The volume of it is massive. (11:23–11:30)

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