Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ led to a tidal wave of stock trades from members of Congress

• Lawmakers were active stock traders in the days following Trump’s Liberation Day tariff announcement. A study of trades shows House lawmakers (or their families) made 1,865 trades in April. This comes amid calls for reform that would prevent lawmakers from trading individual stocks.

While the debate on whether to ban members of Congress from trading individual stocks rages on, lawmakers were particularly active in April amid the announcement of Donald Trump’s tariffs.

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