Bipartisan push to ban lawmakers from trading stocks gets a boost from Trump
Source: NPR
Updated May 2, 2025 9:59 AM ET
President Trump and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., don't agree on much. But their public support of legislation to ban members of Congress from trading individual stocks could revive prospects for a bipartisan effort that's stalled on Capitol Hill for years. Earlier in April around President Trump's tariff announcement, a flurry of lawmakers' stock trades raised questions about whether they got any advance notice.
Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is one of the members whose trades have attracted scrutiny. According to House disclosure filings, Greene purchased between tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock around the tariff announcements. She also disclosed more trades around the news that Trump was pausing many of the tariffs for 90 days. Some of the specific stocks she purchased increased in value significantly.
Greene's office did not respond to a request for comment, but she recently told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that her financial adviser handles her trades. More disclosures about lawmakers' investment moves around the tariffs are expected later this month. Trades like those are not surprising to lawmakers advocating for the ban.
"I think that this happens all the time. I do think that it makes the point," Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley told NPR. He introduced legislation to bar lawmakers from investing in individual stocks. He backed a bipartisan bill last year that made it through committee but never got a floor vote.
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