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'THE OUTRAGE IS BIPARTISAN': Bruner Says Americans Sick of Congress Members Enriching Themselves in Office [WATCH]


GAI Director of Research Seamus Bruner called out Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) for insider trading after her reported wealth jump — from $700,000 to as much as $14 million through stock trades. He blasted the lack of accountability, citing the watered-down STOCK Act and public skepticism over the proposed Pelosi Act.

Bruner emphasized growing bipartisan outrage over congressional self-enrichment and called for tougher rules to rein in insider trading on Capitol Hill.

“It’s very convenient that she’s decided not to trade stocks after adding as much as $14 million to her net worth,” Bruner said of Sherrill. “It was potentially as low as 700 when she entered Congress. So, they need to ban trading of stock and owning a stock because they can affect the value of their holdings, obviously,” Bruner said.

Americans are sick of members of Congress enriching themselves while in office.

“The outrage is bipartisan,” Bruner said. “And the desire to end congressional insider trading is not bipartisan.
Nobody wants to end it in Congress.”

“We broke the insider trading scandal way back in 2012 in Peter Schweizer’s book Throw Them All Out. They passed the STOCK Act — Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge — that was supposed to put an end to this. And then they gutted it. Bipartisan. They gutted it at the last minute, took all the teeth out of it.”

Watch Bruner’s comments above.