Michael and Susan Dell pledge $6.25 billion for children's Trump Accounts

In an Oval Office ceremony Monday morning, July 6, President Donald Trump marked the launch of the Trump Accounts program by ringing the opening bells for both the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq from the White House. Lead guests included Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell Technologies, and his wife, Susan Lieberman Dell, co-founder and board chair of the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, along with the presidents of both the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq.

Michael Dell was born in Houston to a Jewish family and started what became Dell Technologies from his college dorm room with $1,...