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 banal trading contempt the aforesaid contented having plagued the Democratic Party for years.

"It’s affluent for Hakeem Jeffries and nationalist Democrats to abruptly attraction astir banal trading erstwhile their existent leader, Nancy Pelosi, and members of their ain caucus marque traders connected Wall Street look similar amateurs astatine a penny arcade. This governmental pandering is lame," Mike Marinella, NRCC spokesperson, said successful a connection to Fox News Digital. 

The New York Times and Business Insider reports this twelvemonth revealed Bresnahan has continued trading stocks since joining Congress, contempt vowing to prohibition banal trading if elected. And since introducing legislation to prohibition banal trading and vowing to signifier a unsighted trust, the Pennsylvania Republican continued trading stocks. 

"Enough with the thievery. This feline is getting richer portion mundane Americans conflict to unrecorded paycheck to paycheck. When we instrumentality backmost the House, we volition enactment an extremity to this blatant corruption," Jeffries, D-N.Y., said connected X. 

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries criticized Rep. Rob Bresnahan for banal trading. (Getty Images)

Politicians connected some sides of the aisle person benefited from trading stocks portion serving successful office. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., reintroduced legislation this twelvemonth to prohibition members of Congress and their spouses from trading stocks portion successful office. Hawley archetypal introduced the "PELOSI Act" successful 2023. 

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Perhaps nary typical has faced much scrutiny for banal trading than Jeffries' predecessor, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

In 1 specified example, Pelosi's hubby sold 2,000 Visa shares past twelvemonth for astatine slightest $500,000, a fewer months earlier the national authorities sued the company. Such trades indispensable beryllium legally disclosed nether the Stop Trading connected Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act. 

This year, Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas, slammed President Donald Trump's tariffs connected "Liberation Day," past purchased $100,000 and $250,000 successful Apple stock, according to his financial disclosures reported by Southeast Politics. He has besides purchased Tesla shares since Trump’s inauguration.

President Donald Trump said helium would motion a measure banning Congress from banal trading if it reached his desk.  (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

And arsenic the banal marketplace was fluctuating astir "Liberation Day," Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., bought 23 stocks, worthy betwixt $23,023 and $345,000, and sold 2 stocks, worthy betwixt $2,002 and $30,000, Sun Sentinel reported.

But they weren't the lone Democrats who cashed successful connected Trump's "Liberation Day." Rep. Julie Johnson, D-Texas, sold dozens of idiosyncratic banal holdings successful the hours earlier April 2, according to NOTUS. 

Justin Chermol, spokesperson for Jeffries, told Fox News Digital, "House Democrats volition not beryllium lectured by a Republican Party that has openly embraced corruption successful the Trump administration, the Supreme Court and the Congress."

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"If MAGA extremists really cared astir the banal trading issue, House Republican leaders would instantly bring a measure to the level that volition prohibition banal trading by existent members of Congress. They person refused to bash it," Chermol added.