For ninety years Americans fought to keep the government from building one master file on each of us. This week Trump and Scott Bessent started one for every child in the country... Imagine this Brave New World that Donald Trump and Scott Bessent just laid the foundation for last week: The year is 2041 and your daughter is now in her twenties; she’s had a federal financial account — a “Trump Account“ — since she was a child that was created for her by a billionaire Treasury Secretary she’s never heard of, and it’s tied to her Social Security number. The account also has become a central clearing space for everything else she does, from student aid to healthcare to her tax refund, housing assistance, and the disaster relief she got after her home was hit by a flood. One morning in October she tries to book an airline flight home for Thanksgiving, and her purchase is declined on the orders of the federal government. Her internet has slowed to a crawl, the apartment she was trying to rent just “vanished,” and the job she was interviewing for just stopped returning her calls. What happened? Three weeks earlier, she’d gone to a protest and an undercover ICE operative snapped her picture. As a result, the “responsibility score” she didn’t even know she had that’s been made part of her Trump Account dropped by forty points, and when she calls to ask why, she’s told it’s “confidential government data” and there’s no appeal.