GOP congressman calls out Marjorie Taylor Greene's stock trades
Source: Business Insider
May 15, 2025, 4:01 PM ET
First, it was Democrats who made a big deal out of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's stock trading habits. Now, a fellow Republican is joining in.
"Just another reason why stock trading by members of Congress or their spouses should be banned," Rep. Mike Lawler of New York wrote on X in response to a post showing that one of the Georgia congresswoman's recent stock purchases had paid off.
Lawler, who does not own any individual stocks, is a co-sponsor of the TRUST in Congress Act, a bill to require lawmakers and their spouses to divest from stocks or place them in a blind trust.
Greene has attracted scrutiny in recent weeks for a series of well-timed trades she made around President Donald Trump's tariff moves in early April. When stock prices began to fall after the April 2 "Liberation Day" announcement, Greene began investing tens of thousands of dollars into a variety of stocks, continuing to do so right up until stock prices shot back up after Trump announced that most of those tariffs would be paused for 90 days.
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Just another reason why stock trading by members of Congress or their spouses should be banned.
The appearance of impropriety, or worse, is too great.
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Wow.
We recently posted a report on Marjorie Taylor Greene's purchase of Impinj stock, $PI.
It caught our eye, because it was a small company that no one in Congress had traded for years.
The stock has now risen 64% since her purchase last month.
Look at this graph:
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3:11 PM · May 15, 2025
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