{"id":43910,"date":"2025-07-22T13:45:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T17:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/?post_type=act&p=43910"},"modified":"2026-01-22T00:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T05:01:14","slug":"ban-congressional-stock-trading","status":"publish","type":"act","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ar\/actions\/ban-congressional-stock-trading\/","title":{"rendered":"BAN Congressional Stock Trading!"},"template":"","class_list":["post-43910","act","type-act","status-publish","hentry","act_type-petition"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"","featured_image":"","act_type":40,"location":46,"related_issues":[2082],"related_work":false,"button_text":"","secondary_link":"","hero_cta_type":"none","hero_cta":null,"hero_cta_text":"","start_date_time":"","end_date_time":""},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_add_component","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_add_component":null},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_work","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_work":{"heading":"Work","manually_curate":false,"work":null}}],"platform":"action_network","platform_id":"action_network:dfd679eb-107c-4d2f-8245-1f8fbc3f07c9","tm_actions_platform":{"event_type":"petitions","platform_url":"","summary":"Members of Congress are elected to serve We The People \u2013 not play the stock market to get rich.\r\n\r\nWhen politicians stand to gain or lose huge sums of wealth based on the votes they cast, there\u2019s just no way to trust they\u2019re acting in our best interests and not their own.\r\n\r\nWe must ban congressional stock trading NOW.","description":"

When Congress voted on Trump's bill to slash Medicaid and food assistance \u2013 while handing billions to big corporations and the top 1% \u2013 some lawmakers were quietly cashing in.<\/strong>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

Fossil fuel companies, arms dealers, and Big Tech defense firms will all make a fortune because of this bill [1] \u2013 and so will any politicians who own stock in them. Just look at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who made dozens of stock trades in industries set to profit from this bill before voting for it [2] \u2013 and making herself richer in the process.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

She\u2019s not the only one. Lawmakers in both parties \u2013 who have access to information the public doesn\u2019t \u2013 have made hundreds of suspiciously well-timed trades this year. [3] No wonder politicians\u2019 portfolios consistently beat the market [4] \u2013 they aren\u2019t playing by the same rules as the rest of us.<\/strong>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

When politicians stand to gain or lose huge sums of wealth based on the votes they cast, there\u2019s just no way to trust they\u2019re acting in our best interests and not their own.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

That\u2019s why Common Cause is sounding the alarm and demanding Congress pass a full ban on stock trading by lawmakers<\/strong> \u2013 with no loopholes or backroom deals. And here\u2019s the exciting part: our Capitol Hill insiders tell us there\u2019s real momentum for a bipartisan stock trading ban \u2013 more than ever before. [5]\r\n<\/p>\r\n

<\/span>Even President Trump claims he\u2019d \u201cabsolutely\u201d sign a congressional stock trading ban into law [6] \u2013 even though it could cost his buddies in Congress millions. Let\u2019s call his bluff and demand Congress send it to his desk.<\/strong>
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Sign the petition now to say enough is enough \u2013 it\u2019s time to ban Members of Congress from trading stocks. <\/strong>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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[1] https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/76c2b360-79b3-443a-a142-32eeef7598c4
[2] https:\/\/www.capitoltrades.com\/politicians\/G000596?txDate=90d
[3] https:\/\/www.capitoltrades.com\/articles\/policy-profits-and-the-big-beautiful-bill-that-changed-it-all-2025-07-15
[4] https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/how-to-invest-like-congress-11753159
[5] https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/05\/02\/nx-s1-5381400\/lawmaker-stock-ban-trump
[6] https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5267113-donald-trump-congressional-stock-trading-ban\/\r\n<\/p>","featured_image_url":"","browser_url":"https:\/\/act.commoncause.org\/petitions\/ban-congressional-stock-trading","address":"","timezone":"","latitude":"","longitude":"","is_virtual":false,"start_date":"","end_date":"","embed":"