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Hoity-toity condescending billionaire Scott Bessent and Trump's White Supremacist crime syndicate...
...are going to FORCE BANKS TO VERIFY CITIZENSHIP OF ALL ACCOUNT HOLDERS.And RealID is "not sufficient". The EO is coming, the sneering condescending prick says.
I HAD TO PROVIDE MY BIRTH CERTIFICATE to get my RealID - and THAT isn't enough?
MILLIONS of Americans do not have birth certificates, even if born here. So this isn't just targeting immigrants but MILLIONS of others too - just like their asinine poll tax schemes to keep women and people of color and the poor from voting EVEN WHEN THEY ARE CITIZENS.
And what of WOMEN who married and changed their names - and their birth certificate (if they can even find it) doesn't match THE NAME ON THEIR BANK ACCOUNT? Are they simply disallowed from having bank accounts? Likely so, it would seem. This is the Republican Taliban shoving WOMEN not only out of the franchise (voting) but also out of the banking system to further reduce or eliminate their financial independence. Because we know the RT DESPISES women who have voting rights, financial independence, bodily autonomy, or their own opinions, minds, and choices about anything in their lives at all. This "proof of citizenship" ruse is a crowbar to separate women from their civil, financial, and human RIGHTS - along with millions of others as well.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/banks-citizenship-data-collection-customer-accounts.html
NOT TO MENTION the EXPENSE of banks being forced to do all this and the fact that immigrants PUT A LOT OF MONEY into our economy, some via banking, others not. And what happens to the economy when THAT is just arbitrarily removed by white supremacists like Trump and his cabal of white nationalists? It goes to SHIT. Banks will not shoulder the cost of these billions of dollars in extra paperwork per year. They will PASS IT ON TO THEIR CUSTOMERS in the form of FEES and surcharges.
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....whatever the hell papers they will demand is just SoL. Mostly minorities, the poor, and married women. 
Whatever it is, the entire thing is batshit white-male supremacist insane.
All their international partners in crime and THEIR bank accounts? Hmm?
Sounds like they have only half way thought this through.
