{"id":26553,"date":"2026-01-04T22:13:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T03:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=26553"},"modified":"2026-01-04T22:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T03:19:10","slug":"image-of-the-day-trump-boosted-average-401k-accounts-biden-reduced-them-by-25000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/26553\/image-of-the-day-trump-boosted-average-401k-accounts-biden-reduced-them-by-25000\/","title":{"rendered":"Image of the Day:  Trump Boosted Average 401(k) Accounts, Biden Reduced Them By $25,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a startling visual, our friends at <a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/committeetounleashprosperity\/unleash-prosperity-hotline-13363191?e=313568bbd7\">Unleash Prosperity<\/a> highlight something that has gone underreported to date:\u00a0 The degree to which Americans&#8217; average <a href=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/dc8d30edd7976d2ddf9c2bf96\/images\/96f8222d-4e95-0a38-84c2-8c7e17c9c2b0.png\">401(k) plans<\/a>\u00a0have grown during both of President Trump&#8217;s terms, but fell by $25,000 under Joe Biden in inflation-adjusted terms.\u00a0 Something to consider when Trump&#8217;s opponents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/briefing\/2025\/12\/30\/americas-affordability-crisis-is-mostly-a-mirage\">attempt<\/a> to claim that Americans suffer an &#8220;affordability&#8221; crisis under his leadership:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/dc8d30edd7976d2ddf9c2bf96\/images\/96f8222d-4e95-0a38-84c2-8c7e17c9c2b0.png\" alt=\"Your 401(k) Under Trump Versus Biden\" width=\"708\" height=\"472\" \/> Your 401(k) Under Trump Versus Biden<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a startling visual, our friends at Unleash Prosperity highlight something that has gone underreported to date:\u00a0 The degree to which Americans&#8217; average 401(k) plans\u00a0have grown during both of President Trump&#8217;s terms, but fell by $25,000 under Joe Biden in inflation-adjusted terms.\u00a0 Something to consider when Trump&#8217;s opponents attempt to claim that Americans suffer an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4540,860,19,500,1236,3227],"class_list":["post-26553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-401k","tag-biden","tag-economy","tag-inflation","tag-retirement","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26553"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26557,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26553\/revisions\/26557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}