Pelosi's stock trading legacy haunts Democrats as Jeffries slams GOP freshman's 'thievery'
The National Republican Congressional Committee NRCC is accusing House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of hypocrisy for slamming freshman GOP Rep Rob Bresnahan's stock trading despite the same issue having plagued the Democratic Party for years It s rich for Hakeem Jeffries and national Democrats to suddenly care about stock trading when their real leader Nancy Pelosi and members of their own caucus make traders on Wall Street look like amateurs at a penny arcade This political pandering is lame Mike Marinella NRCC spokesperson disclosed in a message to Fox News Digital The New York Times and Business Insider reports this year revealed Bresnahan has continued trading stocks since joining Congress despite vowing to ban stock trading if elected And since introducing bill to ban stock trading and vowing to form a blind trust the Pennsylvania Republican continued trading stocks Enough with the thievery This guy is getting richer while everyday Americans struggle to live paycheck to paycheck When we take back the House we will put an end to this blatant corruption Jeffries D-N Y stated on X MACE SOUNDS OFF ON STOCK TRADING IN CONGRESS PELOSI REMAINS SILENT SOMETHING DOESN T ADD UP Politicians on both sides of the aisle have benefited from trading stocks while serving in office Sen Josh Hawley R-Mo reintroduced statute this year to ban members of Congress and their spouses from trading stocks while in office Hawley first introduced the PELOSI Act in HOUSE REPUBLICANS TAKE STEP CLOSER TO BANNING CONGRESSIONAL STOCK TRADINGPerhaps no representative has faced more scrutiny for stock trading than Jeffries' predecessor Rep Nancy Pelosi D-Calif In one such example Pelosi's husband sold Visa shares last year for at least a limited months before the federal establishment sued the company Such trades must be legally disclosed under the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge STOCK Act This year Rep Vicente Gonzalez D-Texas slammed President Donald Trump's tariffs on Liberation Day then purchased and in Apple stock according to his financial disclosures shared by Southeast Politics He has also purchased Tesla shares since Trump s inauguration And as the stock sector was fluctuating around Liberation Day Rep Jared Moskowitz D-Fla bought stocks worth between and and sold two stocks worth between and Sun Sentinel shared But they weren't the only Democrats who cashed in on Trump's Liberation Day Rep Julie Johnson D-Texas sold dozens of individual stock holdings in the hours before April according to NOTUS Justin Chermol spokesperson for Jeffries explained Fox News Digital House Democrats will not be lectured by a Republican Party that has openly embraced corruption in the Trump administration the Supreme Court and the Congress CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP If MAGA extremists literally cared about the stock trading issue House Republican leaders would directly bring a bill to the floor that will ban stock trading by current members of Congress They have refused to do it Chermol added
