Reporter Asks Pete Aguilar About Bipartisan Push To Ban Stock Trading By Lawmakers

During a House Democratic leadership press briefing on Wednesday, Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-CA) discussed the push to ban stock trading by lawmakers.

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00:00Mike Johnson said this morning that he supports a ban on stock trading by members.

00:05Jeffries has said the same.

00:07Do you think that's something now that should be moved on very swiftly,

00:11now that there's agreement from both parties' leaders?

00:14This has been a bipartisan issue.

00:16Members on both sides of the aisle have talked about this.

00:19There's a lot of details behind it.

00:21I support a ban personally,

00:23but there's a lot of details that would need to be worked out.

00:27But what is difficult for members to also comprehend is,

00:31yes, we believe that members should be trading.

00:35We don't believe that members should use any knowledge that they have in order to execute trades.

00:41Marjorie Taylor-Breen and the chairman of committees have recently engaged in some of this that is questionable.

00:48What is also questionable is the president of the United States

00:53being able to trade his likeness with meaning points.

00:57And he and his family profit to the tune of potentially hundreds of millions of dollars

01:02in order to continue this grift on the American public,

01:09and not just the American public,

01:11to be able to profit from people around the country.

01:13So I'm in favor of a ban.

01:16But let's not also lose sight that there are plenty of things

01:19in which we need to hold the executive to

01:22when it comes to conflicts of interest and trading as well.

01:26Thank you!