Pelosi buckles, pushes stock-trading ban
AxiosJUN 2022
Members of Congress have great power to shift stock prices, and massive financial incentives to do so. Allowing lawmakers to trade on these stocks is out-dated and must be outlawed for this conflict of interest to stop.
Not only is Pelosi flip-flopping on something she's long opposed, she's using an already popular initiative to try and get a win for the Democrats ahead of the upcoming midterms.
In Pelosi's aims to expand the legislation to the judiciary and other branches of government, she is cynically attempting to create a behemoth of the issue so that it remains in discussion stage and never gets tackled.