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No. 553
Filed APRIL 30, 2026
Self-Dealing & Corruption
Second Term

Trump Orders Treasury To Build A Federal Retirement Website Called TrumpIRA.gov, Resolving Long-Standing Concern That A Government Program Helping Workers Save Could Do So Without Bearing The President's Name

The Filing

WASHINGTON. President Trump on April 30 signed an executive order directing the Department of the Treasury to construct, by January 1, 2027, a federal retirement-savings website that will be known to the public as TrumpIRA.gov, resolving a long-standing concern that the government's effort to help low-income workers prepare for old age was being conducted without reference to the President's surname.

The site itself, as described in Executive Order 14403, is an informational portal. It will list private-sector individual retirement accounts that carry net-expense ratios no higher than 0.15 percent, impose no minimum balance requirement, and connect eligible savers to the Federal Saver's Match, a government contribution of up to $1,000 created by the bipartisan SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022. The program is, by the administration's own account, aimed at independent contractors, part-time employees, and the self-employed, none of whom are recorded as having requested that the website be named after Donald Trump.

"The President felt the page needed a name people would trust," said a source within the administration, who noted that the retirement match the site promotes had until now circulated under the comparatively anonymous banner of the United States Treasury. The same official observed that the order's instruction to bear the cost of publication fell, as written, to the Treasury Department itself.

The Saver's Match at the center of TrumpIRA.gov was enacted in December 2022 and signed by President Biden, a detail the order does not mention. Under Executive Order 14403, the match will now reach the public through a domain ending in the current President's name, making TrumpIRA.gov the first federal financial-services platform to append a sitting President's surname to the Treasury's own savings infrastructure.

Officials emphasized that the website would be genuinely useful, a claim that independent observers did not dispute, the program's low fee caps and matching contributions being widely regarded as sound policy. "It helps people, and it has his name on it," the administration source said. "Both things can be true."

At press time, Treasury staff were reportedly studying whether the Federal Saver's Match, currently named for the federal worker who receives it, might be more accurately described as the Trump Saver's Match.

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