This is a major win, but it’s not over. The full Senate still needs to vote. Tell your Senators that you want them to vote to ban Congressional stock trading.

RepresentUs supporters and outreach teams have sent 35,000 messages to representatives and senators about Congressional stock trading, and those messages helped move the needle. We are one step closer to passing this commonsense reform.

The bill would prevent federal officials from buying “securities, commodities, futures, options, trusts and other comparable holdings.” Basically, it would prevent our elected officials from enriching themselves off the stock market while in office, ensuring they're working for.

🚨 BREAKING: The Senate Homeland Security & Government Affairs Committee just advanced a bill to ban members of Congress, the President, and VP from trading stocks. The vote was 8–7. All Democrats voted yes, Josh Hawley (R-MO) was the only Republican to join them.

The Senate confirmed Emil Bove last night, Trump's former lawyer and now appointee to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals who, according to multiple whistleblowers, urged DOJ attorneys to defy court orders that didn't advance his agenda. Trump’s personal lawyer should not be above.

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Ultimately, Trump and his billionaire cabinet will not feel the pain from these decisions. It’s us, Americans, along with the people of Brazil, who are stuck holding the bag for Trump’s petty fights. We deserve leaders that will serve us, not just their own and their friends’.

This has nothing to do with Americans or the economy. Trump has made clear that this was a purely personal move to protect his buddy. That’s not diplomacy or negotiating about trade. That’s extortion! It’s mob-style politics, and a dangerous abuse of power.

His son and allies have been lobbying Trump to intervene. The result? Punishing tariffs, which Trump described as retaliation for Brazilian authorities’ prosecution of Mr. Bolsonaro.

Trump has announced a 50% tariff on all Brazilian imports to get a political ally off the hook from criminal prosecution. Jair Bolsonaro, the former president of Brazil, is facing criminal charges there.

Why would the Trump administration impose 50% tariffs on a country where the US runs a trade surplus and where US companies like Starbucks source coffee? The answer isn’t to protect American workers or to fix a trade imbalance.

A majority of Americans across party lines support banning congressional stock trading. We don’t need more excuses, we need action. Help us ban congressional stock trading NOW!.

This is a bipartisan problem. Our elected officials should be spending their time working for us, not growing their portfolios. Despite laws like the STOCK Act, nothing stops members of Congress from owning and trading stock in industries they regulate.

“Stock trading by members of Congress… creates an obvious risk of corruption and is devastating to public trust,” said Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno, CEO of RepresentUs, adding that Americans deserve a system where decisions are “based on national interest, not bottom lines.”.

All four lawmakers serve on committees that help decide where those defense dollars go. That’s a textbook conflict of interest—even if trades are made by third-party managers. The public deserves better.

Sen. Mullin, Rep. Cisneros, Sen. Boozman, and Rep. Johnson all bought shares in firms like Raytheon, L3Harris, and General Dynamics, right as Congress was increasing defense spending by $120 billion in the latest budget bill.

Newsweek just reported that four members of Congress, both Republicans and Democrats alike, bought stock in defense companies while sitting on committees that oversee military budgets. These companies receive billions in government contracts.

Billionaires may have more money, but Americans have a voice. And it matters. We may not win every battle, but we’re not powerless. This democracy belongs to all of us, and when we show up, we can protect it.

Thanks to public pressure, the final bill did not include provisions to weaken court authority and a decade-long ban on AI regulation at the state level. This is proof: when the public speaks out, it can influence what happens in Washington.