House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries criticized Rep. Rob Bresnahan for stock trading. (Getty Images)
Politicians on both sides of the aisle have benefited from trading stocks while serving in office. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., reintroduced legislation this year to ban members of Congress and their spouses from trading stocks while in office. Hawley first introduced the "PELOSI Act" in 2023.
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Perhaps 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 2,000 Visa shares last year for at least $500,000, a few months before the federal government 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 $100,000 and $250,000 in Apple stock, according to his financial disclosures reported by Southeast Politics. He has also purchased Tesla shares since Trump’s inauguration.
President Donald Trump said he would sign a bill banning Congress from stock trading if it reached his desk. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
And as the stock market was fluctuating around "Liberation Day," Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., bought 23 stocks, worth between $23,023 and $345,000, and sold two stocks, worth between $2,002 and $30,000, Sun Sentinel reported.
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 2, according to NOTUS.
Justin Chermol, spokesperson for Jeffries, told 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."
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"If MAGA extremists actually cared about the stock trading issue, House Republican leaders would immediately bring a bill to the floor that will ban stock trading by current members of Congress. They have refused to do it," Chermol added.
Deirdre Heavey is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
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