{"id":386976,"date":"2026-10-29T21:04:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T21:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/386976\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T21:04:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T21:04:48","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-kids-in-eligible-brooklyn-neighborhoods-will-get-250-in-their-trump-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/386976\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Kids In Eligible Brooklyn Neighborhoods Will Get 250 In Their Trump Accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Frank Bisignano, CEO of the Internal Revenue Service and a Brooklyn native, donated $250 to the Trump Accounts of children 2 to 8 years old living in the 11234 zip code, including parts of neighborhoods like Mill Basin, Bergen Beach and Flatlands.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Bisignano Family Fund made the donation.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cThat\u2019s fantastic that Brooklyn finally got something because usually Brooklyn is at the bottom,&#8221; said residents like Lynne Kaplan.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The announcement was made on Thursday at St. Bernard Catholic Academy in Bergen Beach. Bisignano grew up in the neighborhood. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cIt\u2019s as simple as I love 11234. I believe every one of these children are exactly who I was,&#8221; said Bisignano.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Bisignano says it&#8217;s one of the most populated zip codes in the country.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\"><a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/longisland.news12.com\/2026\/07\/30\/trump-accounts-draw-interest-from-parents-as-millions-of-children-enroll\/5OYZEz9hiBYfuUV5tnh6Nx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The investment accounts include a $1,000 contribution<\/a> from the federal government for children born between 2025 and 2028. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;It&#8217;s starting when you&#8217;re young. It&#8217;s an IRA for children that will convert to an IRA at 18 and can be a 7-digit number during their lifetime,&#8221; said Bisignano.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">There are nearly 70 million total Trump accounts.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cThat would have been nice if my parents had money to do something. Anything that will benefit the children is fantastic,&#8221; said Kaplan.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">To claim the contributions, parents and legal guardians need to activate their child&#8217;s <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/trumpaccounts.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Account<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frank Bisignano, CEO of the Internal Revenue Service and a Brooklyn native, donated $250 to the Trump Accounts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-386976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}