(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump repeated his desire to keep tax breaks for workers’ 401(k) contributions Wednesday -- just hours after the chief tax writer in the House said his panel was exploring ways to change retirement savings in legislation he plans to release next week.

Trump told reporters that preserving the 401(k) tax-deferred retirement plans is very important to him, and that he wanted to make that clear. Earlier in the week he had said on Twitter that there would be “NO change to your 401(k),” calling them a “great and popular” tax break for the middle class.

“I wanted to end that quickly,” Trump said Wednesday of discussions on limiting the tax break. “I didn’t want that to go too far, which is why I ended it very quickly,” Trump said as he departed the White House for a trip to Dallas. When asked about prior comments from Representative Kevin Brady, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, saying retirement changes were under consideration, Trump said: “Maybe it is and maybe we’ll use it as negotiating.” But he added that Brady knows how important 401(k)s are.