  > any number of citizens do not have ready access to any document proving citizenship.

Do you have a citation for "any number" being high?

▲ runako a day ago | parent [-]

Generally will leave as an exercise for the reader.

But immediately one can say that most minors will not have the requisite picture ID because they do not drive and we are not required to carry picture ID (this rollout would be touch more people than the requirement that drivers carry ID). So as of right now, most minors in the US cannot prove citizenship under the criteria Bessent is suggesting (yes, the country should be debating this).

Let's call it all the people under 15 so we don't get the "akshully learner's permit" folks objecting. The US has ~60 million people in the 0-14 age bracket, apply whatever ratio you want to that for citizens/noncitizens and you are still going to end up with a lot, likely millions, of people.

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dmitrygr a day ago | parent [-]

Minors aren’t allowed to open bank accounts without their parents being on the account. Unless their parents are also in that age bracket, but that’s biologically unlikely

	▲	runako a day ago \| parent [-]
		You asked who doesn't have the required documentation, I am telling you it's minors. Saying parents are also on the account does not change that as of this moment, those documents do not exist and therefore have to be secured. > Unless their parents are also in that age bracket This is irrelevant because the point was to identify a broad population that currently does not have the relevant documentation. That's people 0-14.